Quotes About Choice

Dios ciega al que quiere perder.

Hay una contradicción en torno a esta vida que se quiere preservar. ¿Por qué se da a escoger a los creyentes entre la vida del feto y la de la madre? ¿Por qué se elige la vida del feto?

A ella todo le salía, escogía bien las películas que iban a ver, los libros, los amigos, se manejaba con seguridad. Con ella eran buenas las conversaciones y buenas las comidas. Mucho más madura que las de su edad; llevarla a su lado, ahuecando el pecho, su pelo de lino alborotado, era una certeza equiparable a saber que la tierra gira en torno al sol.

Bio je to izbor od kojega ju je majka odmah pokušala odvratiti. Majka je znala da njeno dijete takvom vrstom glazbe ne?e uspjeti osvojiti srca mase, koju su i majka i dijete oduvijek prezirale, ona prva zato što je oduvijek bila malen, bezna?ajan dio te mase, a potonja jer se od po?etka trudila da ne postane takav mali, bezna?ajni dio.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?

No one have the right to choose who you will be.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

There is, in truth, no genuine confrontation between faith and law; there is no choice between them. If one starts out with a philosophy of despair and is willing to abandon life in its biological and socio­-historica1 fullness to its doom of futility and meaninglessness, one is bound to seek salvation in some otherworldly spiritual redemption. One has not chosen faith and rejected law', one has rejected life and thus needs no law.

My policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.

Moreover, my policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.

Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically.

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

It was like when Isabel managed not to marry the guy with the cotton mills, and it was her first taste of victory—because "she had done what she preferred.

But I was in Russia because I had looked at the literatures of the world and made a choice.

There are two ways to die here,' the fighter concluded. 'You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.

Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

MILO: So she's used to luxury. Whose fault is that? ANDREW: It's not a fault if you can afford it. But can you?

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.