Quotes About Choice

the Buddhist scripture expresses it: Those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead

What if the 'brutal thunderclap of halt' takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?

It is a long way from Mr. Polly's discovery (If you don't like your life you can change it) to: There is no way out or round or through.

And what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.

and for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no.

Or maybe she will keep it a garden. An anchor in the vicious waters of the plantation to prevent her from being carried away. Until she chose to be carried away.

If you had the power to make people do what you wanted and never exercised it, what was the point of having it?

its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. "I'm caught," Cora said. "You choose to be with him." Homer looked puzzled. He took out his notebook, turned to the last page, and scribbled.

This or this," his eye doctor asked at checkups, a choice between two lenses of different power. Elwood never ceased to marvel how you could walk around and get used to seeing only a fraction of the world. Not knowing you only saw a sliver of the real thing. This or this?

Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.

Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

It was the last time he raised his hand. The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you've been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.

The thing about the Occupation is that it never let you decide. It took away your ability for choice. Banish it and choice would appear.

while the others--those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther--felt viable now with disgust for the shouters: they wanted the man to save himself, step backward into the arms of the cops instead of the sky.

She would not go meekly to that fate. If the rest of her life was meant to be miserable and forlorn, at least she could choose the path that would take her there.

The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along!

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.