Quotes About Choice

No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

the price they must pay for escaping their destiny.

Never let time be your master,' Bellman told Verney when he asked about it. 'If you want to do something, take it on. Time will always make itself.

Què havia de fer de tota aquella llibertat?

I think the day is as beautiful as you and I choose.

I doubt if there is such a thing as a wholly free choice, because one's choices are rooted in one's personality.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.

But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice, the single direction. This is what makes things inevitable. You use the restrictions and penalties they invent to make yourself stronger. History means to merge. The purpose of history is to climb out of your own skin.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

The question is can you cure the disease before it kills you? Once you set out consciously to cure the disease, as I did even before I knew the word cancer, you run the risk of catching it. Comprende? Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

Ne svi?a li nam se vlastita pri?a, možemo je promijeniti. Jer mi smo, na kraju krajeva, njezini autori.