Quotes About Choice

Guess?" Vizzini cried. "I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

The truth,' said Westley, 'is that you would rather live with your prince than die with your love.' 'I would rather live than die, I admit it.' 'We are talking of love, madam.' There was a long pause. Then Buttercup said it: 'I can live without love.' And with that she left Westley alone.

La verità» disse Westley «è che tu preferisci vivere con il Principe anziché morire con il tuo amore». «Preferisco vivere che morire, lo ammetto». «Parlavamo d'amore, signora».

Sono il tuo Principe e non sono così male... Come puoi preferire la morte piuttosto che sposarmi?» «Perché» replicò Buttercup «matrimonio significa amore, e non è il mio passatempo preferito».

You'll pick the wrong one, knowing you...He did pick the wrong one.

Mortals alone can change their destinies; heroes are measured by their willingness to do so.

Which would you rather have, O King—that little golden statue, or a little girl who could run, and laugh, and love you?" "Oh, give me back my little Marygold and I'll give up all the gold I have!" said the king. "I've lost all that was worth having.

conceive that the people of America, in their present temper, or under any circumstances which can speedily happen, will choose, and every second year repeat the choice of, sixty-five or a hundred men who would be disposed to form and pursue a scheme of tyranny or treachery

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

Freedom is only necessity understood.

Freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Believe truth! Shun error!—these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life. We may regard the chase for truth as paramount, and the avoidance of error as secondary; or we may, on the other hand, treat the avoidance of error as more imperative, and let truth take its chance.

But not by Hermann Goering. He cheated the hangman. Two hours before his turn would have come he swallowed a vial of poison that had been smuggled into his cell. Like his Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and his rival for the succession, Heinrich Himmler, he had succeeded at the last hour in choosing the way in which he would depart this earth, on which he, like the other two, had made such a murderous impact.

There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.

Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.

The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?

ANY MOMENT CALLED NOW IS ALWAYS FULL OF POSSIBLES. AT

What you up to, Isaac? They're so egalitarian . . . well . . . Their society's all based on maximizing choice for the individual, which is why they're communistic. Grants the most uninhibited choice to everyone. And as far as I remember the only crime they have is depriving another garuda of choice. And then it's exacerbated or mollified depending on whether they do it with or without respect, which they absolutely love . . .

I always stayed. I can't say I chose to stay as I felt quite without traction, without capacity to find myself or anything.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.