Quotes About Choice

sino libres para responder a lo que nos pasa de tal o cual modo

La libertad no es una filosofía y ni siquiera es una idea: es un movimiento de la conciencia que nos lleva, en ciertos momentos, a pronunciar dos monosílabos: Sí o No.

Aunque no podamos elegir lo que nos pasa, podemos en cambio elegir lo que hacer frente a lo que nos pasa.

Libertad es decidir, pero también, no lo olvides, darte cuenta de que estás decidiendo.

La democracia, además, solo existirá en América cuando los pueblos sean realmente libres para escoger, cuando los humildes no estén reducidos —por el hambre, la desigualdad social, el analfabetismo y los sistemas jurídicos—

Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

No is a better word than Yes

free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.

You might as well go one place as another, he said. That's all I know.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far as he is concerned, a living deformed character is acceptable and a dead whole one is not.

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do.

You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.

time goes forward, it don't go backward and unless you take what's offered you, you'll find yourself out in the cold pitch black and just how far do you think you'll get?

becomes clear that whereas life in Christ results in obedience, this "obedience of faith" (Rom. 1:5; 16:26) is not accomplished by a human choice of one of two ways.25 There is a decisive difference between a call to obey and a transfer to a new world

I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to choose between a career in America and my family. I chose my family.

When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.

If a farmer is happy within a corporate set-up, he can choose that. If he is happy with his arthiya, he can stick with that.

I believe if given the choice, Americans will choose to support American farmers when they head to the store to shop.

If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.