Quotes About Choice

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

I don't choose to be humble.

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask for directions or the time of day, that's the woman we ask for money.

I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

Así que puede amarme sinceramente y por libre elección, tal como lo hizo en otro tiempo, o le pondré el yugo y le obligaré a ser el hombre con el que me casé. Estoy harta de tener que aguantar sus gilipolleces.

Make your own choices before anyone else makes them for you and way before the house lights are lowered.

Of course, motivating yourself has little to do with energy — and everything to do with decisions. Choosing to do something, especially if it seems difficult, might be hard. You need to decide whether the task is worth the effort.

My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows

You can't convince me that I'm obligated to save you from yourself.

If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won't get in your way. Nope. I won't hand you a bucket of grease, either. You've got to do it on your own.

People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

Nací para poeta o para muerto, escogí lo difícil —supervivo de todos los naufragios—, y sigo con mis versos, vivita y coleando. Nací para puta o payaso, escogí lo difícil —hacer reír a los clientes desahuciados—, y sigo con mis trucos, sacando una paloma del refajo. Nací para nada o soldado, y escogí lo difícil —no ser apenas nada en el tablado—, y sigo entre fusiles y pistolas sin mancharme las manos.

But she didn't want to stay there, so she climbed back out the window, through the glass eyes of the seven-foot Good Shepherd, and started again the futile weaving of invisible ifs and slippery mights into an equally unattainable past.

of character, who don't believe it when you tell 'em it's really anything they want. They sit there confused and silly, craning their necks all around, asking over and over for a menu.