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"For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool."
"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
"Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment)."
"We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free."
"Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?"
"You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
"My weapon of choice is my voice."
"Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it."
"FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular."
"If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?"
"Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it."
"Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference."
"I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice."
"In the end, we are our choices."
"You really look to understanding someone's psyche, and the choices that would best support them, and help to energetically open those areas of their being able to know that everything in life comes to us when our entire organism is clean and clear."
"As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom."
"Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all."
"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature..."
"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had."
"Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy."
