Quotes About Choice

It is him, Random. Him. That's all.

I spat sand so I would not choke when I laughed. Hell, we make our own what ifs. I had better things to do than what could have happened.

Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.' 'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied

Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.

Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.

Every nation has a right to carve out its own happiness in its own way."25

With a second-string cabinet of Wolcott, Pickering, and McHenry, Washington had purged it of apostasy but had also exchanged creative ferment for mediocrity; the numerous rejections had given him little choice.

Tal como em seus primeiros poemas de amor juvenis em Santa Cruz, Hamilton era capaz de imaginar as jovens como deusas castas ou como megeras atrevidas. Talvez ele não soubesse ainda qual tipo preferia.

In an ironic outcome unforeseen by reformers, it would become the private bank of choice for central banks throughout the world, giving it an incalculable new advantage.

In choosing partners, Pierpont wouldn't tolerate a refusal.

Junior decided to look elsewhere and finally selected Brown because three close friends had chosen to attend it.

Having often hired people based on general ability, not specific skills—Gates himself being a prime example—Rockefeller acceded to the choice.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Qutb hävdar att liv utan islam är slaveri; därför kan verklig frihet inte uppnås förrän jahiliyya har utplånats. Det är endast när människans styre har utrotats och sharia har införts som det inte kommer att finnas något tvång i religionen, för det finns bara ett val: islam.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

A happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

That's just how it is, you know, she said. Women always choose men over other women.

Why was it so hard to tell the difference between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves?

Everybody has a choice in life.

Time to shit or get off the pot.

A person either runs or he fights. It's a binary choice, and I'm a fighter.

The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road