#choice

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#determinism #freedom #will #freedom

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#choice #good-and-evil

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both. ↗

— Sarah Kay

#choice #love #worst #you #love

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about? ↗

— John Stossel

#allowing #america #choice #people

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#human-rights #life #pro-choice #pro-life #life

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#life #relationships #life

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#death #grief #hurt #life #death

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#anna-cornick #charles-cornick #choice #cry-wolf #faith

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #freedom #dreams