Quotes About Choice

when they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them." "When

He wanted to marry her. "For men like you, 'marriage' sounds a lot like 'sentenced to forced labor in the mines.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them.

loving someone and being with him were two different things.

Would you rather be a hero in charge of your own destiny or a martyr wallowing in self-pity? What will it be?

Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men?

Sean halted. Do I get a good-bye kiss? It will just make things harder, Sean. You chose your road. You should follow it and not look back.

Humanity entitles one to certain rights and privileges, but also implies voluntary acceptance of laws and rules of conduct. It transcends mere biology. It's a choice and therefore belongs solely to the individual. In essence, if a person feels they are human, then they are.

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.

Ci vuole così poco per spostare la vita in questa o in quella direzione!

let me at least retain the right to decide my own destiny, to laugh at it, defy it, escape it if I can. A slave? Better to be a slave than a dog who thinks he's free as he trots along behind his master.

even a person who decides to forgo treatment does not necessarily choose death. Rather, he chooses life without the burden of disproportionate medical intervention.

she had a life-threatening illness and was too ill to speak for herself, she did not want any invasive measures to prolong her life: no surgery, no CPR, no mechanical ventilation, no artificial nutrition and hydration.

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully the fates differ. Yet what were the reasons for the choice? They may have been forgotten. Did one know what one was choosing? Certainly not.

I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?

Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?' Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.

There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.

We may love our chains and our stripes too.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is the idea which is vulgarized by existentialists and linguistic philosophers when they make good into a mere matter of personal choice. It cannot be defined, not because it is a function of our freedom, but because we do not know it.

One can't stop people from killing themselves if they're determined to. It may even be wrong to do so.