Quotes About Choice

Edel, kötülük etmeyecek erkekler yapma imkan? var m?? Tanr? da, bir an bunu kendine sormuÅŸ olmal?. Bilmiyorum. Ama denerim.

Così... Io non è che volevo essere felice, questo no. Volevo... salvarmi, ecco: salvarmi. Ma ho capito tardi da che parte bisognava andare: dalla parte dei desideri. Uno si aspettta che siano altre cose a salvare la gente: il dovere, l'onestà, essere buoni, essere giusti. No. Sono i desideri che salvano. Sono l'unica cosa vera. Tu stai con loro, e ti salverai.

Leemos libros porque nos cambian la vida, porque nos conducen a la verdad. Leemos libros porque aprendemos muchas cosas. Pero escribimos libros con otra idea. Cuando escribimos, lo que hacemos es elegir entre lo más raro que hay en nuestro universo y entre lo más querido que hay en nuestro ánimo.

Sleepless late that night, his mind still tumbling with conflicts, he recalled something Omoro had said once when Kunta had refused to let go of a choice mango after Lamin begged for a bite: "When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice.

God wants us to understand Him and to think about His power. That's why He has given us a free will.

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one word: guilt.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

We like to think that we plan what happens to us, but it is chance, surely, that lies behind so many of the great events of our lives -- the meeting with the person with whom we are destined to spend the rest of our days, the receiving of a piece of advice whic influences our choice of career, the spotting of a particular house for sale; all of these may be put down to pur chance, and yet they govern how our lives work out and how happy--or unhappy--we were going to be.

It was, he thought, his gesture against the whole pro-euthanasia movement that talked so glibly of choice without realising the fire with which one played when tinkering with fragile taboos against killing others. Yes, he thought, Mrs Bates's life did not seem to amount to much, but to her it was all she had.

Which is how most people acted when it came to temptation. They gave in. And we should never forget, thought Isabel, that every one of us is capable of doing the same thing if the game that we see for ourselves is large enough.

I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.

I am just saying that we have to have some things that we like, otherwise we shall be very unhappy. And if you are very unhappy you can die – we all know that.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

Make a list of what you know, what you don't know, and what you'd like to know. Make a list of possible outcomes. Choose the outcome you think is best, then go for that!

it was difficult to think what to do, and, as she often did in such circumstances, Mma Ramotswe decided that the best thing to do would be to go shopping.

One might forget so many exotic cheeses, he thought, but the memory of cheddar always remained. Should one be embarrassed by choosing cheddar every time? he asked. Matthew laughed. There's no need to apologize for simple things. But is cheddar simple? Domenica enquired. Just because there's a lot of it, does that make it simple?

That place is the place we have always been, and if you think that where you have been is where you should be, then why go to another place that you do not know at all and may not be as good as the place you were in before somebody came along and said to you that you must go forwards—which is not what you wanted to do?

Things I'll never do. You would not feel uncomfortable reading that list, as you will have already admitted that these are things you do not want to do—and will not do.

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. I'll take the shoes, she said firmly.

But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it. ...it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person.

But she had never once regretted what she had done under the influence of tea, and would not start doing so now.