Quotes About Choice

There come few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," said Cadvan at last. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice.

One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it." "Funny idea of freedom." "It is the difference between commitment and slavery," Cadvan said. "Between working for what you hope for and believe in the depths of your heart, and what someone else forces you to do.

There are many futures and many pasts, and your present is but a tiny fulcrum, changing all of them...

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.

There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice

You would choose to have no power with him when you could have all the power in the world with me?" I lifted my chin. "That is not the choice, Ido. I choose the dragons and the land. Not my own ambition. Or yours.

El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.

Sometimes there is no good choice.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

What, exactly, would you give up?

But I wish you to know that, were I just Edward and you just Jane, I would prefer to marry you. We accord well together, and have similar views… Kings cannot make their own choices. I wished you to know that

It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.

There is a kind of life that leads to death. There is a kind of death that leads to life.

Talking about history is not like living it, I guess. Some people have more choice than others.

She shook her head. "I won't go." His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. "You say that as if you have a choice." "There is always a choice.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

The odds are loaded toward a path of least resistance in several ways. We often choose a path because it is the only one we see. When I get on an elevator, for example, I turn and face front along with everyone else. It rarely occurs to me to do it any other way, such as facing the rear. If I did, I'd soon feel how some paths bring on more social resistance than others.

Dios Todopoderoso, no me dejéis sucumbir a la tentación que tengo de cometer una falta. Espíritus buenos que me protegéis, desviad de mí este pensamiento malo y dadme fuerza para resistir a la sugestión del mal. Si sucumbo, habré merecido la expiación de mi falta, tanto en esta vida como en la otra, porque soy libre de elegir.

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

If you were in control of your smoking, you wouldn't be reading this book. If you could simply choose whether to smoke or not, you would choose to be a nonsmoker.

Client: "Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?" Me: "Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic." Client: "Why on earth would I want you to do that?" Me: "Exactly!

The status quo is not a likely option- we will improve our world or we will destroy it