Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

Follow thou thy choice.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.