Quotes About Choice

?nsan kald?r?m?n ortas?nda karars?z durursa, ya ate? isterler ya da adres sorarlar. Ba?ka bir ?ey sormazlar.

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren't, the cycles wouldn't keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make

What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no other does," she said softly. "You must decide.

There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren't, the cycles wouldn't keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make something more of ourselves.

Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

We do what we do, Lilith.

For myself …In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

To them it's like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy.

I don't trust it. Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.

You want to be what you are. That's healthy and right for you. What we do about it is our decision, our responsibility. Not yours.

I like them, and … they're all I have left. But I need more time to decide. It's no small thing to commit yourself to other people.

Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.

Humans are freer to decide what they want," he said softly. "They only think they are," Dehkiaht replied.

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow

that the Ukrainian choice is a choice between nonexistence and an existence that kills you, and that all of our hapless literature is merely a cry of someone pinned down by a beam in a building after an earthquake—I'm here! I'm still alive!—but, unfortunately, the rescue teams are taking their time and on your own—how the hell are you supposed to get out?

En un cosmos inconcebiblemente complejo, cada vez que una criatura se enfrentaba con diversas alternativas, no elegía una sino todas, creando de este modo muchas historias universales del cosmos. Ya que en ese mundo había muchas criaturas y que cada una de ellas estaba continuamente ante muchas alternativas, las combinaciones de esos procesos eran innumerables, y a cada instante ese universo se ramificaba infinitamente en otros universos, y éstos, en otros a su vez.

Thus, though there is normally no such thing as sin among the stars, no deliberate choice of the course known to be wrong for the sake of some end known to be irrelevant, there is ignorance, and consequent aberration from the pattern of the ideal as revealed to stars of somewhat maturer mentality.

If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms.

Dear brothers, we give you the right to choose your death.

Nie mo?emy traktowa? czynu kobiety jako w pe?ni ?wiadomego - odezwa? si? znowu Frommer. - Psychologia kobieca udowodni?a, ?e kobieta jest jednocze?nie i podmiotem, i przedmiotem, wi?c jej wybory mog? by? tylko w pewnej cz??ci ?wiadome... (...) Kobiety ze swej natury s? delikatniejsze i bardziej wra?liwe, dlatego tak ?atwo sk?aniaj? si? do czynów nieprzemy?lanych.

D. zaczyna? cokolwiek widzie?, gdy siada? przed ekranem swojego komputera. Mia? wtedy przed sob? porz?dek i niesko?czon? harmoni?, prostot? dróg, które prowadz? do celu, jasno?? wyborów, ogromny potencja? my?li. Zaraz za tym do?wiadcza? spokoju, jaki bierze si? ze ?wiadomo?ci bycia wolnym. W pewnych granicach. Ale czy mo?na mówi? o jakichkolwiek granicach, kiedy tworzy si? ?wiaty?