#choose

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#bucket #choose #companions #down #draws

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#boredom #choose #marketing #must #seduction

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have. ↗

— Owen Wister

#just #you

Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely. I do not suppose you and I would have though much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side. God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else -something it never entered your head to conceive- comes crasing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#time-to-choose #beauty

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#black #black and white #choices #choose #freedom

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#choose #citizens #differently #disapproval #hearts

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#also #bad #choose #color #comparison

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#choice #choose #create #freedom #oneself

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#building #choose #down #elevator #escalator

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#burns #choose #concern #debt #diet