Quotes About Choice

For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as tempting as arsenic verses strychnine.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

Bivanje je polnost, ki je ?lovek ne more zapustiti.

For us man is characterized above all by his going beyond a situation, and by what he succeeds in making of what he has been made -- even if he never recognizes himself in his objectification.

ÅŸu son haftalar içinde bir deÄŸiÅŸiklik ortaya ç?kt?. ama nerede? hiçbir ÅŸeye baÄŸlan?lmayan soyut bir deÄŸiÅŸme bu. deÄŸiÅŸen ben miyim? ben deÄŸilsem ÅŸu oda, ÅŸu kent, ÅŸu doÄŸa; seçmek gerek. deÄŸiÅŸen benim san?yorum.

That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does

But existence is a deflection.

Dehors. Dehors. Hors du monde, hors du passé, hors de moi-même : la liberté c'est l'éxil et je suis condamné à être libre.

His thought is both optimistic and anguished. It is anguished because he sees that we are sentenced by our freedom, imprisoned by it (since it makes us afraid); optimistic because Sartre believed that we are truly free and can indeed make free choices.

ölümü hiç düÅŸünmemiÅŸtim, çünkü böyle bir f?rsat olmam??t?, ama ÅŸimdi f?rsat vard? ve bunu düÅŸünmek dururken neden baÅŸka ÅŸeyler yapmal?yd??

Amerikanvari haz?rlanm?? ?stakozu sevip sevmemekte özgürüm, ama insanlar? sevmiyorsam bir zavall?y?m ve gün ?????nda bana yer yok. ...

Mi-a pl?cut întotdeauna mai degrab? s? m? acuz pe mine decât universul: nu din bun?tate: ca s? nu depind decât de mine.

A chaque instant je puis m'éveiller et je le sais; mais je ne le veux pas: la lecture est un rêve libre.

Non... Les jeux sont faits. On ne reprend pas son coup

In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.

La vida tiene un sentido si uno quiere dárselo.

Pakao, to su drugi.

Aujourd'hui, je leur donne raison : ils avaient tout accepté de notre condition, même l'inquiétude ; j'avais choisi d'être rassuré ; et c'était bien vrai, au fond, que je me croyais immortel : je m'étais tué d'avance parce que les défunts sont seuls à jouir de l'immortalité.

Esto es lo que engaña a la gente; el hombre es siempre un narrador de historias; vive rodeado de sus historias y de las ajenas, ve a través de ellas todo lo que le sucede, y trata de vivir su vida como si la contara. Pero hay que escoger: o vivir o contar.

I am therefore responsible for myself and for everyone else, and I am fashioning a certain image of man as I choose him to be In choosing myself, I choose man.

it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.

Tú serás lo que quieras: agua pura, agua sucia. Te reconocerás en el fondo de mis ojos como tú te deseas.

even today, I would rather read 'thrillers' than Wittgenstein.