Quotes About Choice

How can we do this to him? I asked myself. We are going to kill him. We were saying, "Okay, Louie, you must die now," and not giving him any choice about it. We were going to send him into a room and let someone give him a shot so that he would never wake up. But then I remembered what he had looked like the night before, and how much he was hurting, and knew we were doing the right thing.

Dawn has two holes pierced in each ear. (Mary Anne and I will never get our ears pierced.) The

Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

we are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives.

Whatever the needs of the moment, I had a choice: I could do what was required calmly, patiently, and attentively, or do it in a state of panic. Every moment of the day—indeed, every moment throughout one's life—offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker tabile is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent

Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from?

The illusion of free will is itself an illusion.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. If

You can do what you decide to do-but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Lester was the obvious choice for pastor, I guess, since he'd sired half the congregation.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find:

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain. Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, But leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice.

To me,' said the Princess, 'the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

ALTERNATIVE  (ALTE'RNATIVE)   n.s.[alternatif, Fr.]The choice given of two things; so that if one be rejected, the other must be taken.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

AMBS [only in 1755 edition] (AMBS)  ACE.n.s.[from ambo, Lat. and ace.]A double ace; so called when two dice turn up the ace. I had rather be in this choice, than throw ambs ace for my life.Shakesp.All's well that ends well.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Yeah, but I've got to decide soon, I said, feeling lost, cast out alone after so many programmed years. I don't know what to do.

You bet," said Eddie. "In Derm, you only need to know three things: 'If it's dry, you wet it; if it's wet, you dry it; and if you don't know, you use steroids.' No emergencies. Millions. Most popular choice of med students now—that and emergency care. These young docs go for the NOPR: 'No Ongoing Patient Relationship.' Just screens and money.

Sabrina: "But you don't believe in marriage." Linus: "Yes, I do. It's why I've never married.

I'm beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don't want to; those you want to marry and can't.