Quotes About Choice

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

I learned a long time ago … you can't live other people's lives. We have to make our own decisions, even if we're wrong.

De rede biedt ons vele mogelijkheden tegelijk. De intuïtie kiest daaruit feilloos de beste. Wanneer je dit onthoudt kun je je niet meer vergissen en zul je altijd de juiste keuze maken.

He had meditated changing his lodgings; but now, on a judicial review of the case in all its bearings, his calmer judgment told him that the race of landladies is like to the race of the leaves, and that there was but little to choose between them.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

Or. A golden word: "Or." Opportunities, rebirths, other roads.

A man can do what he wants. But he can't want what he wants.

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

A remnant according to the election of grace," signifies an unconditional choice resulting from the sovereign favor of God; in a word, it is absolutely a gratuitous election.

Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?

The question comes today as it did of old, "What shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ?" for you have to do something with Him: either you despise and reject Him, or you receive Him as the Saviour of your soul and the Lord of your life.

You can get used to anything, especially when you have no option. If you have to pay, you pay; it's just a question of attitude. At a particular moment in your life you adopt a certain position, whether mistaken or not. You decide to be like this or that. You burn your boats, and then all you can do is defend that position, come what may.

Era usted un buen fotógrafo porque fotografiar es encuadrar, y encuadrar es elegir y excluir. Salvar unas cosas y condenar otras. No todo el mundo puede hacer eso: erguirse juez de cuanto pasa alrededor. Nadie que ame de verdad puede dictar esa clase de sentencias.

Y es verdad que cualquier detalle puede cambiar la vida: un camino que se toma, por ejemplo, o que se tarda en tomar a causa de una conversación, de un cigarrillo, de un recuerdo.

You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take place will ever take place.

Si me dieran la inmortalidad absoluta a cambio de un día de Purgatorio, rechazaría el trato. Qué pereza, luego, todo el tiempo tocando el arpa en una nube, vestido con un ridículo camisón blanco... Lo mejor es dejar de existir.

En el Génesis, el diablo en forma de serpiente consigue que el hombre deje de ser un alienado estúpido y adquiera conciencia y albedrío, lucidez... Con el dolor y la incertidumbre que ese conocimiento y esa libertad implican.

Cada uno es su propia suerte

algunos preferimos, supongo, los vicios que nos divierten a las virtudes que nos aburren.

Quizás los malvados se cansan tanto como los corazones leales, pensé un instante. A fin de cuentas, nadie elige su destino.

No todos los pueblos son igual de razonables para elegir su conveniencia o su destiño, ni igual de cínicos para justificarse después ante la Historia o ante sí mismos. En cuanto a nosotros, fuimos hombres de nuestro siglo: no escogimos nacer y vivir en aquella España, a menudo miserable y a veces magnífica, que nos tocó en suerte; pero fue la nuestra.

Mantenerse vivo, descubrí durante esos días, da muchas más fatigas que dejarse morir