Quotes About Choice

There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

Vienas svarbiausi? dalyk? - neleisti, kad žmogaus asmenin?s ypatyb?s tur?t? poveikio tavo sprendimams.

Considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

No nos hacemos geishas para tener una vida feliz; nos hacemos geishas porque no tenemos otra opción».

Un equilibrio entre lo bueno y lo malo puede abrir las puertas del destino

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it?

În zilele noastre, oamenii par s? cread? c? vieÈ›ile lor sunt pe de-a-ntregul construite prin opÈ›iune; dar pe vremea aceea ne consideram buc??i de lut care p?strau pe vecie amprentele celor care le atinseser?.

One man spat out at Wilkes, "I would rather vote for the Devil than for you," to which Wilkes replied, "And if your friend is not standing?

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

But then I get to thinking of our mortality and human weakness, remembering there has never been power with purity—anywhere. If you want to be pure, you must stand alone. If you seek to do positive things, achieve something, leave the world a mite better than you found it, then you must choose power and throw some of your purity away. There's no other choice.

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

The less consciously we drift with the wind, the more willingly we do it; the more consciously, the less willingly.

Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

Whose fault is it if the traveller instead of putting his luggage in the cart which bears the load any way, carries it on his head, to his own inconvenience?'83 There

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.