Quotes About Choice

If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton's law of motion, what becomes of free will?

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you.' 'I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.

Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that's the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.

In your rainbow journey toward the realization of personal goals, don't make choices based only on your security and your safety. Nothing is safe. That is not to say that anything ever was, or that anything worth achieving ever should be. Things of value seldom are. It is not safe to have a child. It is not safe to challenge the status quo. It is not safe to choose work that has not been done before. Or to do old work in a new way. There will always be someone there to stop you.

it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it. (Introduction)

You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.

Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate

You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind. You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice.

I don't want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man." "Don't we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don't bring me no whiteboy sass." Hunter's Hunter and Godlen Gray

An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him right to it.