Quotes About Choice

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusc-pulp, damp and happy.

Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters.

where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,

Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.

È libertà completa quella di poter fare ciò che si vuole a patto di fare anche qualche cosa che piaccia meno. La vera schiavitù è la condanna all'astensione: Tantalo e non Ercole.

Kdybych si mohl vybrat, pak bych se nenarodil. Ale když to už musí být, pak se chci s tím osudem smí?it a být š?astný.

Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. … I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek

I believe a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independant, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows us to produce and consume.

Only free men can change their minds and be surprised; and while no men are completely free, some are freer than others.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

You don't get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.

God, having made us free, will not heal our disorder without our assent.

Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The greatest power a person possesses is the power to choose.

Take care, don't fight, and remember if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.