Quotes About Choice

We are free only when we no longer require health, however much we may prefer it.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place)

Coercing a woman out of a burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It's not about the burka. It's about the coercion.

Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?

For the Time Being they had no surname because Ammu was considering reverting to her maiden name, though she said that choosing between her husband's name and her fathers name didn't give a woman much of a choice.

She said, "I'm not marrying anybody." When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free to die irresponsibly, without notice and for no reason.

Vi?as kv?l?k? v?l?šan?s bija, lai vi?ai b?tu pulkstenis, kam vi?a var?tu main?t laiku, kad vien v?l?tos (tam, vi?aspr?t, Laiks ar? dom?ts).

The gist of it was the caste (privileged) hindus wanted the power to close the door on untouchables, but on no account could untouchables be given the power to close the door on themselves. The Masters knew that Choice was Power.

I decided to brazen it out and ask about Musa, where he was, whether they were still together, whether they planned to get married. She said, "I'm not marrying anybody." When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free to die irresponsibly, without notice and for no reason.

India was a Free Country. You could make salt. Row jam, if you wanted to.

Io non sposerò nessuno mi rispose. Quando le chiesi perché, mi spiegò che voleva essere libera di morire in modo irresponsabile, senza preavviso e senza motivo.

choosing between her husband's name and her father's name didn't give a woman much of a choice.

be free to die irresponsibly, without notice and for no reason.

He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

This is what it means to have autonomy - you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Whatever the limits and travails we face, we want to retain the autonomy—the freedom—to be the authors of our lives.

But we have at last entered an era in which an increasing number of them believe their job is not to confine people's choices, in the name of safety, but to expand them, in the name of living a worthwhile life.

This is what it means to have autonomy—you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

We are running up against the difficulty of maintaining a coherent philosophical distinction between giving people the right to stop external or artificial processes that prolong their lives and giving them the right to stop the natural, internal processes that do so. At root, the debate is about what mistakes we fear most—the mistake of prolonging suffering or the mistake of shortening valued life.

That left only one possibility:

It had never occurred to me that I could go.

I told him of how, almost thirty years before, my parents had narrowed their choices of where to take up practice to either Athens, Ohio, or Hancock, Michigan, in the upper peninsula.