Quotes About Choice

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must.

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

As in all experiences, we have a choice. We can greet them as a God or a victim. We can learn by them and heal the past, putting what is in the highest and best good for the people and the planet as first and foremost on our agenda.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can't say what it's going to do next.

When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other.

Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler—like coalmining or lumberjacking.

The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God.

There are flowers growing upon the hill Like they always have before. Will you stay here with me, or go and kill On a foreign lonely shore?

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

However, I would argue that there is one simple question that implies all of the above questions and gets to the heart of the issues concerning the ball's motion. That one single question is the following: Does the ball have any choice?

In the car going home, I said, "We should have stayed." Bogie said, "No, we shouldn't. You must always remember we have a life of our own that has nothing to do with Frank. He chose to live the way he's living—alone. It's too bad if he's lonely, but that's his choice. We have our own road to travel, never forget that—we can't live his life.

You better find out what you want in life, because that's what you're going to get!

for love cometh of the heart and not by constraint." "That is true," said the king; "for love is free.

God is love, and he designed us with the capacity to love him back. But he won't force the issue. We have the freedom to choose him or turn away. Our choice is what determines where we will go after death.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in hell, choose it.

The good news about hell is this: It wasn't intended for you, and you weren't intended for it. You don't have to go there. Choose otherwise.

If only I had been able to examine the evidence while it was fresh! But no: I had followed my prick instead. What would Sherlock Holmes have said?

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

Way I see it, there's two kinds of family. There's the one you're born into and there's the one you gather around you as time goes by. The first kind you've got no say about, and sometimes it ain't quite right for you. You try to be a part of it but you just can't. The second kind, though, you choose.

"Would you like an adventure now.... or would you like to have your tea first?" Wendy said "tea first" quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude....