Quotes About Choice

The choosing, the choosing, that's all we've got.

Friend: We are here. Already here. Within. A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch in your hand, that accomplishes you know not what: do you throw it? Disaster is otherwise assured. It costs you nothing. Why not try?

We were as we were! the bass lisper barked. How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time , and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment .

Stated another way, the product with the easier decision-support system often has the competitive edge, even if the product, considered apart from that system, is not superior. The fact that it's easy to decide on becomes an actual feature of the product.

The "easy-to-decide-on" product wins because customers tend to follow the path of least resistance.

Aucun homme, aucune femme ne doit justifier son anthologie personnelle, ses choix canoniques. L'amour ne se justifie pas par l'argumentation.

If there is in deconstruction any hint towards valuation, towards the choice of one text for commentary rather than another, it lies merely in the wealth, gamesomeness and ingenuity of the misreadings or emancipations which it occasions.

Una mayoría incalculable de la humanidad elegirá ver telenovelas en vez de leer a Esquilo;

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

But freedom is not an American value; it is a universal value. Freedom cannot be imposed; it must be chosen. And when people are given the choice, they choose freedom.

Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice

To choose evil is to choose freedom—"freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Önceden düÅŸünülmüÅŸ bir hareket deÄŸil bu, bir hareket de deÄŸil zaten, bir hareket yokluÄŸu, yapmad???n bir hareket,yapmaktan kaç?nd???n hareketler.

Kay?ts?zl?k iÅŸe yatamaz. Ä°steyebilir ya da istemeyebilirsin, ne fark eder! Bir parti tilt oynamak ya da oynamamak; nas?l olsa biri ayg?t?n deliÄŸine bir yirmibeÅŸlik atacak. Her gün ayn? yemeÄŸi yemekle kararl? bir hareket yapt???n? sanabilirsin. Ne var ki reddediÅŸin iÅŸe yaramaz. Yans?zl???n hiçbir anlam ta??maz. Cans?zl???n öfken kadar abes.

Nem lehet boldoggá tenni az embereket akaratuk ellenére... Viszont ami a boldogtalanná tevést illeti...

It only takes a few minutes, a few seconds, to become a murderer. Before that you're a man like any other.

he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by his genius for persuading himself that any disagreeable necessity forced upon him by his own folly, or his son's overriding will, was the outcome of his own choice and wise decision.

He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.

that if you were offered the choice between a splendid body or a splendid mind you would choose the mind, because it would long outlast the body.

It seemed to Kitty a pity that her new friend's mind was set so irrevocably upon marriage, but her suggestion that Olivia might seek an eligible situation as a governess met with no favour at all. Olivia stared at her with dismay in her big eyes, and unequivocally stated her preference for death.

She had felt the exquisite happiness of knowing herself to be sought after by the man of her choice; and when he had asked her to waltz with him a second time she had not hesitated.

Live where you choose! It's all one to me. Have you anything more to say?' 'No, I have not, and I should be very happy to think I need never say another word to you for as long as I live – and of all things in the world there is nothing – nothing – so abominable, and contemptible, and cowardly, and ungentlemanly as persons who walk out of the room when one is addressing them!