Quotes About Choice

He said men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

Aki felismeri a végzetét s mégis az ellenkezÅ' irányt választja végül éppúgy ugyanoda ér s éppúgy számot kell adnia ugyanabban a szabott órában mert minden ember sorsa és végzete éppen akkora amekkora a világ melyben lakozik és amelyben minden ellentét egyaránt benne foglaltatik.

But the old woman said that some have no choice. She said that for the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

Yet the captain inhabited another space and it was a space of his own election and outside the common world of men.

Really. Been married once. No children. Amicably divorced. I dont have any tragedies in my life to give it a form and destination outside of my control. I like what I'm doing. But I could be doing something else. I've been blessed. I'm not even sure I'd change the bad things. Here comes the food.

You think you can believe in heaven if you dont believe in hell? I guess you can believe what you want to. Rawlins

A friend once told me that those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one.

Life. What can you say? It's not for everybody.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. You understand what I'm sayin?

Shoo, said the old man. I wouldn't turn Satan away for a drink.

You listen to me, he said. Dont you let em think they aint goin to have to. You hear me? I intend to make em kill me. I wont take nothin less. They either got to kill us or let us be. There aint no middle ground.

while men may meet with death in strange and obscure places which they might well have avoided it was more correct to say that no matter how hidden or crooked the path to their destruction yet they would seek it out.

Everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to.

She said one time that just because the world was spinning didnt mean that you couldnt get off. There's

Suffering is part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life

A friend once told me that that those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo. Great. Okay. How about this one. A farmer finds two boll weevils in his cotton patch. You told me. I never. He chose the lesser of two weevils.

Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People

A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well.

I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you'd make the right choice even then.