Quotes About Choice

Il ne s'agit pas de choisit son époque, mais de se choisir en elle.

Quand une fois la liberté a explosé dans une âme d'homme, les Dieux ne peuvent plus rien contre cet homme-là. Car c'est une affaire d'homme, et c'est aux autres hommes — à eux seuls — qu'il appartient de le laisser courir ou de l'étrangler.

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois : c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres, Égisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

They are as unfree as Roquentin, yet they hide the terrible imprisonment of their existences by unthinkingly getting up, going out to work, relaxing on Sundays, and so on. They wrongly imagine that they have chosen this form of life, when of course it has chosen them.

Wiem bardzo dobrze, ?e nie chc? nic robi?: czyni? cokolwiek to stwarza? istnienie – a jest i tak wiele istnienia.

He pensado lo siguiente: para que el suceso más trivial se convierta en aventura, es necesario y suficiente contarlo . Es esto lo que engaña a la gente: el hombre es siempre un narrador de historias; vive rodeado de sus historias y trata de vivir su vida como si la contara. Pero hay que escoger: o vivir o contar.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

Vote for the candidate you believe would be the best candidate. That's the way it should work.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.