Quotes About Choice

to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.

Booker cut her off. "Scientifically there's no such thing as race, Bride, so racism without race is a choice. Taught, of course, by those who need it, but still a choice. Folks who practice it would be nothing without it.

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

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

The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of freedom, of earned solitude, of choosing the walls she wanted to breakthrough, minus the burden of shouldering a tilted man. Unobstructed and undistracted, she could get serious and develop a plan to match her ambition and succeed.

Do you want him? I want somebody, I told her. He's as good as anybody, she said.

Either I am to live in this world on my terms or I will die out of it.

Some folks want to live forever. Some don't. I believe they decide on it anyway. People die when they want to and if they want to.

The decision he would make would be extremely important but the way he made the decision would be careless, haphazard, and uniformed.

What good is a man's life if he can't even choose what to die for?

Biblical love is a choice to do good for another person regardless of what we feel. It is a decision to compassionately and righteously pursue the betterment of another person. This is why you can even love your enemies according to Christ's command.

Sabemos que nos conecta con el lugar donde queremos ir; pero ¿qué pasa si yo cruzo el puente y tú decides quedarte donde estás? ¿Los dos le daríamos uso al puente? No. Un puente solo es útil si lo cruzas. Y un puente que no se usa es un puente inútil.

Forgiveness is first and foremost a decision. It doesn't begin with an emotion. It is not contingent on how you feel

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.

The absence of a kingdom purpose for marriage makes it appear as if many couples have been married by the secretary of war rather than the justice of the peace. A passenger on a plane one day noticed that the man sitting next to him had his wedding ring on the wrong hand, so he asked him why. The husband replied, Because I married the wrong woman.

What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable.

is never a struggle between good and evil, but between the preferable and the detestable.

Democracies in which there are no significant political choices to be made, where economic policy is all that really matters—and where economic policy is now largely determined by nonpolitical actors (central banks, international agencies, or transnational corporations)—must either cease to be functioning democracies or accommodate once again the politics of frustration, of populist resentment.

En palabras de Sartre: «Ser libre no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino en querer hacer lo que uno puede».

We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.

It's your life. Do what you want with it.

People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down!" -Sven to Torneo

Eve: I don't understand this word..."Freedom." Does it mean...I do what I want? Sven: Yes. Eve: Then I wouldn't have to kill anymore? Sven: No more killing.

Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.