Quotes About Choice

La libertad os hará libres

KeÅŸke bir ÅŸey yapmadan önce düÅŸünseydik çünkü o zaman baz? ÅŸeyleri yapmazd?k.

Ilse and I had a fight yesterday about which we'd rather be Joan of Arc or Frances Willard. We didn't begin it as a fight but just as an argewment but it ended that way. I would rather be Frances Willard because she is alive.

Because I simply couldn't make up my mind to do it. I never can make up my mind about anything myself—I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decide to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's a dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.

Si le dejaran elegir, ¿qué preferiría tener: una hermosura divina, una inteligencia deslumbrante o una bondad angelical?

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end.

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.

I, Leo Chao, would rather be dead than stop eating pig. I will be ash and bone chunks in a little urn before I don't eat juicy pig.

Because America is not a democracy, it's not a place of opportunity, he knows, if you can't choose to be white.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

The choice before us is rather stark: either live to be comfortable (both internally and externally, but especially internally), or live to know God. We can't have it both ways. One choice excludes the other. P91

He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision. He almost wished something would happen—a sudden attack of Mexicans or something. He might be killed, but at least he wouldn't have to make a choice between disobeying Mr. Gus and disobeying Lorena.

I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

I'll pass on snow myself, when I have the option.

He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.

Gus knew himself. He knew how he wanted to be, and he had chosen in the critical hour not to accept being less.

There was a period when he wanted to go back, when it would have been nice to sit with Maggie a few minutes and watch her fiddle with her hair. But he chose the river, and his solitude, thinking that in time the feeling would pass, and best so: he would stop thinking about Maggie, she would stop thinking about him... But it didn't pass--all that passed were years.

A sword could be used on oneself. Just turn it around. Jump from the top of a rock?

Louis told himself he only wanted to know if he could get pills. His addiction wasn't broken unless he had a choice to lapse.

have precious little free will, he was saying. We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner

Memory was my drug of choice. -Pea Hicks

I needed to be free to choose not to be free, get me? If someone told me I had to be a slave, 'cause I'm a woman, or 'cause I'm black, I'd fight like hell to be free. I need to know that everything I do is my decision. That's what makes it OK.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.