Quotes About Choice

My faith is a choice. My morality is a choice. My sexual orientation however isn't.

In life we either become bitter or better'. And the only person who determines that outcome is ourselves.

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old, bloody course of violence and waste - and now, God help us, to the very destruction of all the struggles and triumphs of the human race on this earth. My old friends and fellow townsmen: which will it be?

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. Its better to live somehow than not at all.

Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a little bit mad, isn't it, to hold a faithful flame for the one you've picked, when no such choice is required of you? The sane response to a rainbow is not to pick your favourite colour.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.

Comenzaba la tarde, pero tanto mal me había dado aquel día que me espantaba continuarlo. Sin embargo, no se puede renunciar a vivir medio día: o el resto de la eternidad o nada.

Por qué?- Quiso saber- -¿Y por qué no?- repliqué"- El relato se detiene, hay un espacio en blanco. Se suspende oportunamente: la última frase es magnética, me ha retenido. En efecto, la cuestión no es por que me mataré, sino por qué no matarme.

But a man cannot renounce his life for half a day: There is either the rest of eternity or nothing.

El que se casa se siente elegido y a la vez siente el placer y la responsabilidad de elegir. Se comprende que no se ha agotado la posibilidad de elegir y de ser elegido

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

La biblioteca se hace igual con lo que se elige como con lo que queda descartado.

They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

La vita è un appuntamento, lo so di dire una banalità Monsieur, solo che noi non sappiamo mai il quando, il chi, il come, il dove. E allora uno pensa: se avessi detto questo invece di quello, o quello invece di questo, se mi fossi alzato tardi invece che presto, o presto invece che tardi, oggi sarei impercettibilmente differente, e forse tutto il mondo sarebbe impercettibilmente differente. O sarebbe lo stesso e io non potrei saperlo.

Preferisco l'angoscia ad una pace marcia, affermò lui, tra le due cose preferisco l'angoscia.

E anche questo mi dà il senso di una libertà bella e superflua, come quando hai pensato a lungo di fare una certa cosa e finalmente ci sei riuscito. E ora, che fare?

A man may remain single by choice, but a woman only by compulsion.