Quotes About Choice

Like Buridan's Ass, the donkey that starves because it can't decide between two bales of hay, I become paralyzed by indecision.

Emma repeated to herself, Good Heavens! Why did I marry?

It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away.

Ä°nsan, ÅŸeytan?n yan?na yaklaÅŸmas?na izin verdi mi, art?k iradesi üzerindeki denetimini kaybeder. Gözleri kapan?r; iyiyle kötüyü, doÄŸruyla yanl??? ay?ramaz olur.

True love in my view can only flourish in conditions where there is a mixture of freedom and constraint. An imposed love, sanctioned by law and blessed by a priest does not really seem the same thing at all

How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

Never speak out of anger, never act out of fear, never choose from impatience, but wait...and peace will appear.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken-

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken (- Robert Frost-)

Kimse parçalanmay? seçmez, mutluluk hakk?ndaki düÅŸünceleri paramparça olmad??? sürece.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict the freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them. How 'free' a market is cannot be objectively defined. It is a political definition.

Hell is a matter of everyday life, like the Kingdom of God. The choice is yours.

Clothes and accessories were a person's creativity; how someone looked was always a free decision, like a brushstroke on a painting.

Ja minä voin viedä tuon naisen - hän tarkoitti vaimoaan - ulos johonkin kauniiseen paikkaan.' 'Mihin kauniiseen paikkaan sinä viet sen, oopperaanko? Siellä pyörii kuulemma hyvä produktio Rigolettosta.' 'Eläintarhaan, jumalauta! Minne ikinä haluaa!' Anwar heittäytyi sentimentaaliseksi, kuten tunteettomat ihmiset usein.

Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.

Krivcu mozes da radis sta ti padne na pamet.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.

In order to make room for one's own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed.

Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." — Hannah Arendt