Quotes About Choices

If you get killed," she argued with a mix of despair and anger, "it's not just you who'll pay the price. I'll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn't that matter to you?

It was too late the day you met Kathy. It'd be you and Kathy – not you and me – if I let you live.

She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

I think about all of the things I've done, Oskar. And all of the things I didn't do. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

We cannot keep the kinds of meals we have known and also keep the planet we have known. We must either let some eating habits go or let the planet go. It is that straightforward, that fraught.

Life overflows with imperfections, but some matter more than others

It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.

Razmišljam o svemu što sam u?inila.I o svemu što nisam u?inila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povu?i stvari koje nikada nisam u?inila.

I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

aber wenn wir uns die Mühe machen und uns umsehen, können wir nicht leugnen, dass wir mit unseren täglichen Entscheidungen die Welt gestalten.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values —or betray them —lies in the food we put on our plates.

Species don't make choices, individuals do. And even if species somehow could, to imply that they would select perpetuity over individual well-being is hard to apply more broadly. By this logic, enslaving a group of humans is acceptable if the posed alternative were nonexistence. (Instead of Live free or die, the motto we script for our food animals is Die enslaved but live.)

You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.

Porque, aunque no nos demos cuenta, esta vida que estamos construyendo es la vida en la que vamos a vivir nosotros.

lo peor es que a veces conseguimos convencernos, y entonces nuestra vida más fresca, divertida y creativa queda postergada, y la cambiamos por el esfuerzo para llegar a cumplir las «loables metas» que no se sabe muy bien quién eligió para nosotros. Así, las metas se cumplen, pero no nos proporcionan la felicidad que esperábamos. Los logros materiales llegan, pero el aburrimiento aparece igual.

No puedo definir mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

Esa trama de tiempos que se aproximan, se bifurcan, se cortan o que secularmente se ignoran, abarca todas la posibilidades. No existimos en la mayoría de esos tiempos; en algunos existe usted y no yo; en otros, yo, no usted; en otros, los dos. En éste, que un favorable azar me depara, usted ha llegado a mi casa; en otro, usted, al atravesar el jardín, me ha encontrado muerto; en otro, yo digo estas mismas palabras, pero soy un error, un fantasma.

yo sentía que el mundo es un laberinto, del cual era imposible huir, pues todos los caminos, aunque fingieran ir al norte o al sur, iban realmente a Roma