Quotes About Choice

Le esperienze che contano sono spesso quelle che non avremmo mai voluto fare, non quelle che decidiamo noi di fare. ALBERTO MORAVIA (1907-1990)

Fra le mille maniere di fare un'azione, scegliamo sempre istintivamente la peggiore.

Rather than resign herself to the fate dictated by her medical history, she has chosen a different, if less probable, outcome—one in which she is a shaman.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Ella es una prueba más de que la libertad absoluta de la criatura humana es horrible.

Tu aliento se me fue haciendo costumbre, y ahora lo único que sé es que ya no podría vivir sin él; lo necesito junto a mí y para siempre, contra mi propia almohada. En tu casa o en la mía ¡qué importa! cualquiera de las dos puede ser la nuestra. Elige tú.

Todo libro que uno lee es también un libro que no lee. Nos vamos a morir. Una elección es una renuncia

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Muista, että parempi tippuvan räystään alla kuin yhteenliitettynä häijyn ämmän kanssa.

the true choice is between losing it all and creating what we are about to lose: only this could eventually save us, in a profound sense . . . The possible awakening of the bomb is not simply 'let's do all in our power to prevent it before it's too late', but rather 'let's first build this totality (unity, community, freedom) that we are about to lose through the bomb.

questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare, nè domani, nè mai.

La nostra infelice era ancora nascosta nel ventre della madre, che la sua condizione era già irrevocabilmente stabilita. Rimaneva soltanto da decidersi se sarebbe un monaco o una monaca; decisione per la quale faceva bisogno, non il suo consenso, ma la sua presenza.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

Her sister?" Erik asked. "Weekday or weekend?

We only keep the scars we choose to keep

Words have power. You be careful.

Everything depends which side of the shotgun you're on,