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Quotes About Choice

when I became a vegetarian. I missed the steak, although not as much as I'd anticipated, but I could no longer ignore the slaughterhouse. I
~ Jon Ronson
The biggest lie," he said, "is, The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet." Now
~ Jon Ronson
I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.
~ Jon Stewart
Debemos optar por permanecer en el interior del paraíso del pasado el mayor tiempo posible o volver a nuestro anodino presente en el que, por lo general, las únicas cosas que anhelamos son el fin de semana, nuestro programa de televisión favorito, un sexo mediocre de vez en cuando, o ir a dormir por la noche?
~ Jonathan Carroll
You know she wanted you to vote the other way. It's her future, you know. She's the one who's going to be around the longest.
~ Jonathan Coe
Use well thy freedom.
~ Jonathan Franzen
People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.
~ Jonathan Franzen
My practical intelligence said no, but my heart said yes.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.
~ Jonathan Franzen
People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want
~ Jonathan Franzen
Njen život sa Tomom bio je neobi?an i nedefinisan, zauvek privremen, ali upravo zato, bila je to prava ljubav, jer je svaki dan, svaki sat bio stvar slobodnog izbora. To ju je podse?alo na razliku koju je nau?ila još kao dete na veronauci. Njihovi su brakovi bili starozavetni, ona je poštovala svoju obavezu prema ?arlsu, Tom se plašio Anabelinog gneva i osude. Po Novom zavetu, jedino što je bilo važno bili su ljubav i slobodna volja.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Meeting a choice adolescent now was like smelling strawberries when you were hungry for a steak.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Never been a washcloth user, no.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I bet you're rethinking your decision not to abort me, right around now. It turns out to be so much more painful to wait twenty years for me to do it myself.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Her life with Tom was strange and ill-defined and permanently temporary but therefore all the more a life of true life, because it was freely chosen every day, every hour. It reminded her of a distinction she'd learned as a child in Sunday school. Their marriages had been Old Testament, hers a matter of honouring her covenant with Charles, Tom's a matter of fearing Anabel's wrath and judgement. In the New Testament, the only things that mattered were love and free will.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Esa no era la persona que él creía ser, o la que habría elegido ser si hubiera tenido la libertad de elegir, pero había algo reconfortante y liberador en ser una persona real y definida, y no una colección de personas potenciales y contradictorias.
~ Jonathan Franzen
In the New Testament, the only things that mattered were love and free will.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The problem with a life freely chosen every day, a New Testament life, was that it could end at any moment.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Joey aveva sorriso con furia per impedirsi di piangere. La sua ferita gli sembrava strutturale, come se lui e suo padre avessero scelto le proprie idee politiche al solo scopo di odiarsi, e l'unico modo per uscirne fosse il distacco.
~ Jonathan Franzen
There may be mistakes in the choice of means to attain an end. But success or failure also involves much that lies beyond our power. We are not responsible for the inevitable, nor for a knowledge that is beyond our reach. Solely the ends, honestly chosen, and consistently sought, determine the moral quality of a life.
~ Jonathan Lee
Life is fundamentally up for grabs
~ Jonathan Lethem
Let him get stoned, since everybody must.
~ Jonathan Lethem
No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.
~ Jonathan Maberry
I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy...or maybe it's compassion...is the wrong choice.
~ Jonathan Maberry