Quotes About Choice

Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.

You are far too amazing to be someone's backup. You're someone's first choice.

The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.

If you love three people at the same time, choose the first one, because if there was a 4th or 5th one, you might still fall for them.

Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.

Exchange is truly voluntary only when nearly equivalent alternatives exist. Monopoly implies the absence of alternatives and thereby inhibits effective freedom of exchange.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so?

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

From this standpoint, the role of the market, as already noted, is that it permits unanimity without conformity; that it is a system of effectively proportional representation

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

Eu am optat pentru Via??, îi spusese. Vreau s? tr?iesc, s? v?d ce are s? se întâmple pân? la urm?...

It must be added at once that such a profane existence is never found in the pure state. To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.

Nu poÅ£i r?mâne niciodat? cu o singur? prezen??, nu te poÅ£i d?rui niciodat? unui singur lucru. Firea asta omeneasc? este atât de fundamental tragic? încât te cheam? necontenit în cel puÅ£in dou? direcÅ£ii, paralele dac? nu opuse.

The guy's name was Colt. Colt, said Thebes. Like a baby, male horse? I guess, said the guy, or a gun. Well, which do you prefer? she said. What do you mean? he asked. Like, how do you prefer to think of yourself? As a baby, male horse? No, he said, he didn't really like to think of himself that way. Well, then, as a gun? she said. No, not really, he said. He preferred basically not to think of himself at all.

Yolandi, the central character in the book All My Puny Sorrows says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

Ens hem d'afanyar, va dir. Però no fugiu pas, vaig fer. No sou pas rates que s'escapen d'un edifici que crema. Es va tornar a posar a riure. Exacte, va dir. Hem triat d'anar-nos-en.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

One day can bend your life.

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.