quotations about choice
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.
J. D. STROUBE
Caged by Damnation
Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take to be so is in our power, that we might have refused it. If the fire consume the stable, it choseth not so to do, because the nature thereof is such that it can do no other.
RICHARD HOOKER
Ecclesiastical Polity
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
STEVEN D. WOODHULL
attributed, Quote Unquote
It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.
IRISH PROVERB
Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.
BARRY SCHWARTZ
The Paradox of Choice
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
JIM BUTCHER
White Night
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
FLORA WHITTEMORE
attributed, Quote Unquote
He who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
It is only the superior man who can make a right choice.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
The Bending of the Bough
Life is not made up of a single moment, it's made up of a gazillion moments. What defines us is the choice we make in the next moment, and the one after that.
HENRY SPENCER
"Murder?...Anyone?...Anyone?...Bueller?", Psych
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Sexing the Cherry
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Proud Highway
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
Anatomy of a Melancholy
Nothing is fun when you don't have a choice.
FREDERIK POHL
Gateway
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
Bending of the Bough
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Committed