Quotes About Choice

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.

Humans have free will. Free will is the ability to make irrational decisions.

A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

Unfortunately, Alanik, the game takes no care for your interest. It plays you either way

No job security," Denth said, leaning back in his chair. "The kinds of things we do, they tend to be dangerous and unpredictable. Our employers have a habit of dying off on us." "Though usually not from the chills," Tonk Fah noted. "Swords tend to be the method of choice.

Because he knew we'd never rebel on our own, so he gave us no choice.

But I still feel that I was basically luggage for most of the trip." He shrugged. "Steris, I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.

You will love. You will hurt. You will dream. And you will die. Each man's past if your future. 'Then what is the point?' I asked. 'If all has been seen and done?' 'The question,' she replied 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You not pick the destination, only the path.

You get to choose who you are.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?

It is his ultimate lie, Son of Honor. The lie that says you have no choice. The lie that there is no more journey worth taking.

Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.

Sometimes, Kelsier felt that a skaa Misting's life wasn't so much about surviving as it was about picking the right time to die.

freedom was not lack of responsibilities—it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.

There are no good men, Bleeder said. Choice is an illusion, lawman. There are those created to be selfish and there are those created to be selfless. This does not make them good or evil, any more than the ravaging lion is evil when compared to the placid rabbit.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Like I said," MeLaan said. "He's set it up so that you have no choice—so far as you see it." "You see it differently?" "I've been a lot of people, Ladrian. Seen through a lot of eyes. There's always another perspective, if you look hard enough.

Well, I didn't wanna kill someone in cold blood—" "That's good, I suppose." "—but there weren't no fire around to light her with first.

He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to. As

Well, perhaps by one definition. But it seems that either one—good or evil—has to be pursued for it to be significant. People today … it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

Now he could never change his mind, and there was a kind of tragedy to that.

And which would you rather live in? The fake prison where you think you are free, or the real prison where you spend each day in drudgery?

Some important decisions were made on a battlefield or in a conference room. But others happened quietly, unseen by others. That didn't make the decision any less important to Sazed. He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men- only the things they want are different.