Quotes About Choice

Coffee is not my cup of tea

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

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.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

did here sit two or three hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and found myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature would gladly return to laying out money in this trade.

Ma járt le a borivás és a színház ellen tett fogadalmam, s úgy határoztam, élek is e szabadságommal, miel?tt újra fogadalmat teszek.

No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you become-" [...] "exactly who you are.

it is better to accept the inevitable with energy. Well then, if I have not chosen up till now, now I choose. That is freedom. Having chosen, I am free. Somewhere in my memory

I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free.... only I was cruel. I had the chance to do it, and I took it. Why is that bad, Vyme? Unless, of course, that's what being free means.

held out for arbitrary Thursdays. He

While a name is always something you can choose, it only functions socially as long as I call you by it. (And try calling people names that they don't choose to be called by, if you want to see some real social unrest.)

There is nothing safe about the darkness of this city and its stink. Well, I have abrogated all claim to safety, coming here. It is better to discuss it as though I had chosen. That keeps the scrim of sanity before the awful set. What will lift it?

There are certain directions in which you cannot go. Choose one in which you can move as far as you want.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Let's pull the strings, one by one, place our bets and take these chances. One life to live, make it interesting.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.