Quotes About Choice

A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

i stay awake so i dont dream ,just to wake up and realise my dreams will not come true ,but being awake i am also aware of this! i can only hope for the etearnal void which is death! the only thing which is certain and you can not choose if it happens or not... but is the only definate answer

And she had discovered the best reason, the one that trumps all others: She did it because she liked the way it made her feel. Is

People who have a choice will no longer work to serve your reasons, your goals. They will not work to serve your authority, they will only work to serve their own.

he'd recited the words that Adam speaks to Eve after she's eaten the forbidden fruit. Adam is still unfallen but determined to share Eve's fate.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against ...

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

Our stories are so fundamental to us that it's easy to forget that we choose them.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

Not to have a choice is also a choice.

It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

We can choose to make changes, or we can be subject to other changes--mass migration, disease, armed conflict, a greatly diminished quality of life--but there is no future without change. The luxury of choosing which changes we prefer has an expiration date.

When you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter," I told her, and she said, "Then I would never utter another word again." "You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do." "Then I would never do anything again.

It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.