Meryl Streep Quotes

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

We always have a choice.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

Who gets to decide what you want?

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Choice is our point of power.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

I never do anything that I don't want to do.