Quotes tagged ‘Free Will’

“Maximus: Do you find it hard to do your duty? Cicero: Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Russell Crowe, imdb.com

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong—every single time.”

— Michael Mitnick, Robert B. Weide, Chief Elder, Meryl Streep, imdb.com

“My life is once again the sum of my choices, not someone else's crimes.”

— Lily Sparks, Queen Mary Stuart, Adelaide Kane, imdb.com

“Destiny is nothing more than the sum of our own choices.”

— Sarah Nicole Jones, Ray Utarnachitt, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“Fate is a prison. When free will is gone, what’s left?”

— Cortney Norris, Sarah Nicole Jones, Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl, Ciara Renee, imdb.com

“We're not free in what we do, because we're not free in what we want. We can't overcome what's deep within us.”

— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“Why do we decide for one thing and against another? But does it matter whether the decision is based upon the consequence of a series of causal links? Or that instead it stems from an undefined feeling inside me? Perhaps everything in my life boils down to this one moment. That I’m part of this puzz…”

— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, H.G. Tannhaus, Christian Steyer, imdb.com

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“Most people believe we have free will. That we all choose our path. Sometimes the path is clear, sometimes not so much. Every twist, every turn, can challenge our sense of direction. But it's the choices we make when we reach a fork in the road that define who we are.”

— Jace Richdale, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“Choices, Lawrence. You know, you tell yourself you've been at the mercy of mine because it spares you consideration of your own. Because if you did consider your choices you'd be confronted with a truth you could not comprehend—that no choice you ever made was your own. You have always been a prison…”

— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, imdb.com

“I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.”

— Mike Epps, successories.com

“You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.”

— Mike Epps, successories.com

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com

“I don't understand this. Why wouldn't you want to get something that's better if I'm telling you it's better? And it's not a little better—it's much better.”

— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.”

— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org

“Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.”

— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

“Fate isn’t one straight road… there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

— Dean Koontz, amazon.com

“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variable…”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com