#ice

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . ↗

— Maria Weston Chapman

#fatigue #forget #grudge #love #opposition

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#freedom #death

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel. ↗

— Ally Condie

#freedom #pain #freedom

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#marriage #sacrifice #freedom

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#cheap #find #guy #hard #i

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#code-name-verity #freedom #freedom-of-choice #freedom

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#free-speech #freedom #guarding #guards #injustice

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#freedom #freedom

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#choice #consequences #freedom #redemption #responsibility