CHOICE QUOTES IV

quotations about choice

There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones.

AGENT PHILLIP BROYLES

"Jacksonville", Fringe


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

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

speech, Oct. 9, 1956


There's small choice in rotten apples.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Taming of the Shrew


Any time choice is restricted in some way, there is bound to be someone, somewhere, who is deprived of the opportunity to pursue something of personal value.

BARRY SCHWARTZ

The Paradox of Choice


Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart


Understanding the power of choice is of infinite importance. We were created with the power of individuality, with the freedom to think and to act. Since humanity's creation, though, this freedom has been under attack. To some, freedom is a threat or problem that must be controlled. Freedom, these would say, is a nuisance that leads to trouble. Others, though, see this freedom or power as essential and have gone to great lengths to preserve it, even to the point of shedding their own blood in its defense. This freedom, the power of choice, is the issue of a great cosmic, universal controversy that has lasted for millennia. Even though incredible effort and resources have been devoted to eradicating this freedom, it has been preserved. Choice survives.

JIM ROY

Soul Shapers


Did it ever occur to you that you're so caught up in trying to make the right choice that you've never stopped to consider the possibility that there may not be a right choice, or a wrong choice, just a bunch of choices?

JACK McPHEE

"A Winter's Tale", Dawson's Cree


Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

JEAN ROSTAND

The Substance of Man


The man who can't make a choice makes a choice.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen.

CHARLES LAMB

Essays of Elia


When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

OWEN WISTER

The Virginian


You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Survivor


For our choices take our dimensions in two ways: First, by the kind of them. We may select paltry and showy things, ease, pleasures which have no mind in them, cheap influence with our fellows. Whether there be baseness in this, or whether, as the Stoics would have it, it be only such a savage ignorance as would choose a glass bead before a book, the reckoning is the same as to coarse grain in character; and they who publish this measure of themselves do, indeed, like heavy-bearded cowards, assume but "nature's excrement" to make themselves respected. If we set our choice so high that perforce the low must be left, so high as beauty, generosity, strength of mind, stores of knowledge, memories of the hungry fed, the forsaken cheered, the fallen lifted, humane works watched and reenforced--it is no more than to elect the things which mark us as men.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


Where there is force there is no choice.

JOHN JORTIN

Sermons on Different Subjects


There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid. Confused. Without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days.

LUCAS SCOTT

"Things I Forgot at Birth", One Tree Hill


To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

PATRICK NESS

Monsters of Men


Choice, therefore, is the test and measure of us; for whoso cannot have everything must needs pitch his choice, and he will pitch it as his nature is, high or low.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision.

HERBERT V. PROCHNOW

attributed, Wise Words and Quotes


We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.

F. W. BOREHAM

attributed, The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations


Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon