Quotes About Choice

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

Don't be a guy who feels bad," said Tetsuo. "Nobody ever knows what to do. Our life-task is to decide what to do.

Certo, lo riconosco, la castità è spaventosa: ma soltanto nei primi tempi che la si sceglie ed affronta... Poi avviene qualcosa di simile, lei mi può capire, a quel che succede nell'arte, per chi la fa: i limiti e le preclusioni espressive ne sono la forma, non sono limiti e preclusioni. Allo stesso modo, la castità è la forma più sublime cui l'amor proprio può accedere: un far diventare arte la vita.

You were careless enough to leave me the choice. I choose therefore that you shall be my slave, and I shall make a toy out of you.

For the time being there is only one alternative: to be the hammer or the anvil.

Three out of ten women in the United States have an abortion by the time they are forty-five years old. And women who need abortions get abortions, whether or not the procedure is legal or safe, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Blaming women who need abortions through slut-shaming is not only morally reprehensible, it also is medically irresponsible.

In our culture, love is romanticized as a mystifying, random whirl of passion that happens to a person. Falling in love is thought to be the culmination of love. Yet, love is only meaningful and lasting when a person chooses to love responsibly and welcomes the opportunity to allow love to grow and deepen with time.

Today I will love myself by genuinely caring for my own well-being. I will choose to love those people who deserve my love and respect its strength and power.

Please remember that your life is in your hands; your power and your future are waiting for you to direct them. Only you can stop being victimized and start thriving in your life.

If you don't program yourself, life will program you.

A free spirit myself, I secretly admired a freer one. To deny his right to chose his own path, was to deny myself that right, too.

He's not auctioning off the right to choose a victim. In fact, the auction winner has no say about who gets killed." Sighing heavily, disgust evident in the posture, the other man finally got to the bones of it. "He's auctioning off the right to choose the means of death.

Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time" "Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do." "I don't know if i can do it," I told her. My friend laughed. "You got no choice.

A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.

A dead end is the only way out of where you shouldn't be going.

An emotionally destructive marriage is one where one's personhood, dignity, and freedom of choice is regularly denied, criticized, or crushed. This can be done through words, behaviors, economics, attitudes, and misusing the Scriptures.

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals.

You don't have to do anything. This is what you don't understand! You don't know any older magicians except our professors. It's a wasteland out there. Out here. You can do nothing or anything or everything, and none of it matters. You have to find something to really care about to keep from running totally off the rails. A lot of magicians never find it.

Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. That was the hard part, accepting that you didn't get to choose which way you went.