Quotes About Choice

Well, she can't have it both ways, can she? Just like a woman to want it, though.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Das Leben zwingt den Menschen zu allerlei freiwilligen Handlungen.

But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.

Throughout our time here on earth, we all have a choice. To do things the mediocre way . . . or Machiavelli's way.

We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds.

I don't write things to shock people, necessarily, but sometimes, when making an argument… Let me put it this way: Some people go out into a field of wheat and they'll pick something- just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there. Sometimes, if I have a choice, I'll just drive the thresher through.

I don't write things to shock people, necessarily, but sometimes, when making an argument… Let me put it this way: some people go out into a field of wheat and they'll pick something– just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there. Sometimes, if I have a choice, I'll just drive the thresher through. Sometimes I think that's what's called for...

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

we sometimes have a choice among authorities, and we ought to look at this phenomenon within the experiment. It is possible that when different authorities simultaneously call for opposing lines of action, a person's own values will prevail and determine which authority he follows. Or

Wish my life were inside a book So I could turn to the ending, See if it is a love story Or a gothic disaster.

We must "conserve the freedom of our soul and not mortgage it, except on those rare occasions when we deem it the right path".

Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.

The woman has a dangerous decision to confront, whether she will live her own life, or that of her children, whether she will be a woman first or a mother first.

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

La prego, non si disturbi... l'unico diritto umano che alla fine ti resta è quello di crepare come credi... senza essere scocciato dall'aiuto altrui.

Ölmem sana ac? verecek olsayd? eÄŸer, o zaman ölmezdim.

Çünkü insanl?k tarihi davetsiz misafirleri sevmezdi; kahramanlar?n? kendi seçer, ne kadar usand?r?c? bir çabaya girerse girsinler hakk? olmayanlar? ac?mas?zca geri çevirirdi; talihin ilerlemekte olan arabas?ndan bir kez düÅŸen bir kiÅŸi, arabaya bir daha yetiÅŸemezdi.

Whether we do it or not, we'll have to see—but still, just to have an idea, to think it through, work it out, and calculate the alternatives down to the ultimate consequences, that'll be a pleasure I'd never expected to have.

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

But Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.

There you are, you see. It's no use. You've chosen to be a married person. You mustn't expect to lead the life of a bachelor.' 'But

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers a choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?