Quotes About Choice

Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?" Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.

it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind. The technically accomplished buggers are two a penny in any period. Especially in this great age of universal education. He

PoÈ›i accepta f?r? s? ierÈ›i, dup? cum poÈ›i lua o hot?râre f?r? s-o pui neap?rat în aplicare.

He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's

Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? What are you drinking? The water or the wave?

Victims? Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice. That sounds like an excellent definition of man.

Stress is a choice.

The truth is, different people have different reactions to the same situation. Stress is a choice. Stress is also the result of our choices.

Try to leave one alive… … but do not try too hard. (The Life-Taker)

For people in thrall to 'mortality', the good life means perpetual striving. For Taoists it means living effortlessly, according to our natures. The freest human being is not one who acts on reasons he has chosen for himself, but one who never has to choose. Rather than agonizing about alternatives he responds effortlessly to situations as they arise. He lives not as he chooses but as he must.

For a brief moment we believe, "Now I have the power to be me and do what I want.

I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.

This is a free country...you can do almost anything you want.

went through a quick series of rather

The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.

Boone suggested Theo go home, take

I was a street lawyer, and I could dress any way I wanted.

When the train arrived in Batesville, its sixth stop, at 4:15, Liza decided to get off.

I doubt it. I'll give any book a hundred pages, and if by then the writer can't hold my attention I'll put it away. There are too many good books I want to read to waste time with a bad one." ?

Maitland had opened the bidding. He proposed that Mary be allowed to marry the husband of her choice

No woman of spirit," he said, "would make choice of such a man that was more like a woman than a man

Or should they stay single and keep their independence?

Mary always preferred to ride on horseback rather than be carried in a litter or a coach