Quotes About Choice

this moment, what you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next....It is unwritten.

Maybe it's like my old man said: You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

But real commitment? That requires staying power—in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone.

If everything is really meaningless?then we should create the meaning for ourselves.

If the choice is between being held up at gunpoint or holding the gun, only a madman would choose to hand over his wallet rather than fill it with someone else's cash.

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

If she could leave him so easily, if it was as easy as that, then why did she ever begin it?

If you inhabited a world and a colony of tongueless people landed, would you consent to having your tongue cut out so that you could be like them?

That's too bad, Mr. Hall said, opening Door 1. You've won a goat. But you didn't open another door yet or give me a chance to switch. Where does it say I have to let you switch every time? I'm the master of the show.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Are you going to eat her here, Mr. Rand, or should I prepare her to go?

Se parece a lo que Dostoievski escribió sobre el juego. Es decir, cuando a tu alrededor todo son oportunidades, es muy difícil pasar de largo sin aprovecharlas.

And so, in the end, it is simply impossible to choose one woman over another. That is how it is with them: each is bound to be trying, one way or another.

I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.

I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make  your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.

You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.

I had a sense he was offering things abominable to me, like decaffeinated coffee or coitus interruptus

When your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is but a step away.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

But the posthuman does not really mean the end of humanity. It Signals instead the end of a certain conception of the human, a conception that may have applied, at best, to that fraction of humanity who had the wealth, power, and leisure to conceptualize themselves as autonomous beings exercising their will through individual agency and choice.

Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.

When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)