Quotes About Choice

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

You can't just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?

You'll always be sad about this. But it doesn't mean that you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

If you buy an SUV, you're buying your safety at the expense of someone else's." ... If you're driving a Hyundai, which basically runs on air and tofu, and you get in an accident with an SUV, are you going to say, "Well, at least I have the courage of my convictions?" Hell, no. You're going to say: "Soon's I get outta this hospital bed and find my legs, I'm gonna get me a Suburban. Loaded.

Flying daggers don't kill people, Chloe thought, leaping sidewise at the last minute to avoid one, grabbing the pedestrian rail. People kill people.

Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony.

A veces una mujer encuentra los restos de un barco hecho pedazos y decide hacer con ellos un hombre sano. En ocasiones lo consigue. Otras veces una mujer encuentra un hombre sano y decide hacerlo pedazos. Siempre lo consigue.

Der schicksalsgebundene Mensch ist nicht frei

Katkada žena prona?e olupinu i odlu?i od nje napraviti zdrava ?ovjeka. To joj ponekad uspije. Katkada žena susretne zdrava ?ovjeka i odlu?i od njega napraviti olupinu. To joj uvijek uspije.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

A satisfactory answer clearly cannot be found in the assumption that each person's actions proceed from an unfettered, autonomous will. The reason for the choice would still have to be discovered. Nor will it do to attribute the difference of choice to different environmental influences in which the "self" is placed. This would indeed be reducing the man to the level of a machine, or to a lower level still. And the same environmental influences do not produce identical results.

A newly-born child has no volitions, only reflexes. It is only when experience has supplied us with an idea of what may be done that we will it shall be done. This consideration alone is enough to shatter the case for the supposed freedom of the will. [3]

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan.

randomly around her plate. I said later: at least no ham, no pork, no shrimp mousse, no trayf. But Harry, she said, veal to me is like a frozen scream.

think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

Just think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react

There was a pothole thump, and "Wind of Change" jumped back to "Show Me the Way.

Somehow the United States has become a nation with a permanent air of unreality and yet, by law, custom, or magic, has managed to severely restrict the choice of fantastic roles available to players in this unreality. Halloween is the last night left.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Adam had the right of choice. God gave him the right to choose, and he made the wrong choice. Then God set about to redeem mankind. But man was not created lower than angels, he was created on a higher order in that He had the ability and right to choose. He was created a little lower than Elohim.