Quotes About Choice

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was man aus uns gemacht hat, sondern darauf, was wir aus dem machen, was man aus uns gemacht hat.

Ä°nsan kendi kendine sormal?, diye düÅŸündü Mösyö Darbédat, sorumluluk nerede baÅŸlar ya da daha çok nerede biter?

Ya yaÅŸamay? ya da anlatmay? seçmek gerek.

Ali ta sloboda pomalo li?i na smrt.

On peut toujours faire quelque chose de ce que l'on a fait de nous. »

Io sono per sempre condannato ad esistere al di là della mia essenza, al di là del moventi e del motivi della mia azione, sono condannato ad essere libero. E ciò significa che non è possibile trovare alla libertà altri limiti oltre se stessa, o, se si preferisce, che non siamo liberi di cessare di essere liberi.

La libertad es lo q haces con lo q está hecho para ti

Una vez que ha estallado la libertad en el alma de un hombre, los dioses no pueden nada más contra ese hombre. Pues es un asunto de hombres, y los otros hombres —sólo a ellos— les corresponde dejarlo correr o estrangularlo

What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.

Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn't fantastic any longer, it's inevitable. The inevitable is what you're doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn't do.

If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.

Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)

If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. The simplicity of feeling should not be taxed. I can't work out what this will cost or what either of us owe. The admission charge is never on the door, but you are open and I want to enter. Let me in. You do.

She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.

There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere.

I had to leave. She would have died for my sake. Wasn't it better for me to live a half life for her sake?