Quotes About Choice

Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?

Roy raised my hand to his lips. "Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

Roy, I know that we had a choice, but really, we didn't have a choice. I mourned as though I had miscarried. My body apparently was fertile soil, but my life was not. You may feel that you're carrying a burden, but I shoulder a load as well. So now you know. We are bearing two different crosses.

Don't make your daughter feel like she got to lay with who you want her to lay with, like you're some kind of pimp.

You could marry somebody else." I hardly got the words out. "It's legal." "When I want somebody else, I'll find somebody else," Big Roy said. "But if all I want is a meal, then I'll cook.

I did wonder what was going on inside my body, but I won't say what I hoped for. Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?

Todos los hombres son esclavos. Ellos lo han querido así. Solo Dios puede liberarlos. Él, que les dio la libertad en el nacimiento, aunque ellos hayan renunciado siempre a ella y siempre renuncien.

A real man said, "This is where I am, but I need not stay in the gutter. It is my duty to change what is evil or intolerable in my life. I was given the strength to choose my way, and I will choose it. To do less is to degrade myself by my own will.

We all choose how to look at life. -- A Prologue to Love

Just being a human being, Ive realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you couldve just said no.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

Hey, Stephen, I could give you 50 reason why i would be the one to choose. will all those other girls well their beautiful but would they write a song for you...

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in" "Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like a commandment to a light beam: "Thou shalt minimize or maximize the time taken to reach thy destination.

If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

I wish this didn't affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.

I think there are events of another category that are likewise not fixed in a causal chain: acts of volition. Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduced to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.

Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't.

And yet I know that, because free will is an illusion, it's all predetermined who will descend into akinetic mutism and who won't. There's nothing anyone can do about it; you can't choose the effect the Predictor has on you. Some of you will succumb and some of you won't, and my sending this warning won't alter those proportions. So why did I do it? Because I had no choice.

Of course, everyone knew that Heaven was incomparably superior, but to Neil it had always seemed too remote to consider, like wealth or fame or glamour. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that.