Quotes About Choice

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

I'm not really the sacrificing type.

When we are considering species like the apes, which are aptly known as "anthropoids" (humanlike), however, anthropomorphism is in fact a logical choice. Dubbing an ape's kiss "mouth-to-mouth contact" so as to avoid anthropomorphism deliberately obfuscates the meaning of the behavior. It would be like assigning Earth's gravity a different name than the moon's, just because we think Earth is special.

Desperto um belo dia no mundo e me atribuo um único direito: exigir do outro um comportamento humano. Um único dever: o de nunca, através de minhas opções, renegar minha liberdade.

The power structure draws its validity and strength solely from the existence of the people's struggle. In practice it is the people who choose a power structure of their own free will and not the power structure that suffers the people. (139)

Gabriele non vedeva dinanzi a sé che un inizio, il crocicchio dove le vie si dividevano. Cinque passi più avanti tutto era nebbia e tenebra. Ma avviene in ogni vita così: prima della decisione nulla è più irreale che la meta.

The Poem" It was like getting a love letter from a tree Eyes closed forever to find you– There is a life which if I could have it I would have chosen for myself from the beginning

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

Küçücük bir dünyada büyük insanlar olarak kalmak m? istiyoruz, yoksa uçsuz bucaks?z bir dünyada küçük insanlar olmak m??

The pendulum he really faced was that of choice. His mind could swing one way, tick, and meet in foresight the shame of swallowed truth and swallowed pride, all the humiliation of an enforced recanting. And if he swung his thoughts the other way, tock, there they confronted the breaking agony of the boot or the rack or the slower destruction in a buried cell.

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.

Always stick to your likings - there are profound reasons for them

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Zaljubi se u sebe. Zaljubi se u život. I poslije se zaljubi u koga god ho?eš.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.