Quotes About Choice

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.

My friends, you constrain me unto that which I was altogether resolved never to do, considering how hard a thing it is to find a wife whose fashions sort well within one's own humour and how great an abundance there is of the contrary sort and how dour a life is his who happeneth upon a woman not well suited unto him.

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine.

Quando uno non ha niente, il meglio è di andarsene.

you can't choose love, love chooses you.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Que não sabemos nem o que é o bem nem o que é o mal para nós. Mas que podemos decidir livremente o sentido a dar às coisas que acontecem. E essa é, no fundo, a nossa única força.

Richard, having modestly but effectually scored the minimum number for the purpose, was in process of deciding whether a green or a canary-coloured Fluffy Hussy should be his boon companion for the rest of the day.

Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.

The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do . . .

You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.

The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy?

There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many things m full stop.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.....

Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

No pida a su hijo que diga en voz alta las respuestas. Permítale siempre elegir entre dos respuestas posibles.

In fact, both observing and breaking the rules involve moral choices, and both courses of action reveal something important about the individuals involved. Contrary to the accepted premise-that radical dissent demonstrates a personality disorder-the opposite could be true in the face of sever injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.