Quotes About Choice

I wouldn't make any

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you, But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.—Nathalia Crane

The highest level of Christianity is total humility, total humility means not choosing the best, but letting the best chose you

Now, either you remove your hand, or you shall discover what a girl can learn from five brothers.

You can't love me.' 'Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.

What makes us human is so simple. What we choose to do with it is so complex.

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

I would rather have Sign of the Unicorn than all the boys in the valleys.

They want me to do something, and I'll do it, or I won't do it, and it'll work or not, and I'll survive or not.

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?

I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day.

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn't the end.

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices.

Fiction's nice. Fiction lets you select and simplify.

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.

Enfim, cada um o que quer aprova, o senhor sabe: pão ou pães, é questão de opiniães… O sertão está em toda a parte.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control

Whereas classical liberals seek maximum freedom from government, neoliberal individuals are perpetually responsive to the state's engineering of their environment. In the former, government is idealized to the extent that it stays out of people's lives, thereby maximizing individual choice; in the latter, the state creates the conditions that enable people to choose to behave in ways it has determined are best for the collective good

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now

Nowhere is it written that you have to go down with the ship if you are only dating the captain.