Quotes About Choice

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Human actions consist always in a choice between two goods or two evils which are not deemed equivalent. Where there is perfect equivalence, man stays neutral; and no action results. But what is good and what is better, or what is bad and what is worse, is decided according to subjective standards, different with different individuals, and changing with the same individuals according to circumstances.

O autor utópico quer organizar as condições futuras de acordo com suas próprias ideias e privar o resto da humanidade, de uma vez por todas, da faculdade de escolher e agir.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Jika kau memilih untuk mencari sesuatu, maka sebaiknya kau siap menghadapi apa pun yang kau temukan. Karena mungkin itu bukan seperti yang kau harapkan.

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.

You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of your child you still could in what he had become. Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?

It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.

You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Our decisions make us.

It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone's life might veer in a completely different direction.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made?

There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

You may not be able to choose your reality. But you can change it.

I wonder if it's putting on someone else's skin for a while that she likes so much, or if it's the option of being able to send back a circumstance that just doesn't suit you.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.