Quotes About Choice

Do you want to be a god?" It was easier this time. "Not yet," he said. A tightness I had not known was there eased a little. I would not lose him yet.

War has always seemed to me a foolish choice for men. Whatever they wi from it, they will only have a handful of years enjoy before they die. More likely they will perish trying.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this.

If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

A me piacciono solo due tipi di uomini: gli stranieri e quelli del mio Paese.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind. p.175 from "Giving Money in the Street

The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

Never in my life have I felt more prochoice than when I was pregnant. And never in my life have I understood more thoroughly, and been more excited about, a life that began at conception.

Most people decide at some point that it is better … to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one's being and becoming.

Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

This slice of truth, offered in the final hour, ended up beginning a new chapter of my adulthood, the one in which I realized that age doesn't necessarily bring anything with it, save itself. The rest is optional. Bear

Uno de los hombres pregunta «¿por qué azul?». La gente me pregunta eso con frecuencia. Nunca sé cómo responder. No podemos elegir qué o a quién amamos, quisiera decir. Simplemente no elegimos.

As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with.

I have sometimes found myself wondering if the same principle applies in other realms— if seeing a particularly astonishing shade of blue, for example, or letting a particularly potent person inside you, could alter you irrevocably, just to have seen or felt it. In which case, how does one know when, or how, to refuse? How to recover?

Sara Ahmed Happiness is no protection, and certainly it is not a responsibility. The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy. But one can make of either freedom a habit, and only you know which you've chosen.

She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did