Can't Choose Quotes

#1. You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both

Jaejoong

#3. You can choose your transgressions but you can't choose your consequences.

Deborah Stempien

#4. There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Tara Brach

#5. The rule of clerics is totalitarian. It means people can't choose. Humanity is varied, and we should celebrate that instead of suppressing it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#6. We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

Michelle Moran

#7. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.

Jessica Khoury

#8. You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Wayne Dyer

#9. We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

Alexander Kluge

#10. You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?

Kate Winslet

#11. If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.

Alan Cohen

#12. If the path isn't in front of you, you can't choose to walk it." - Viriathus, Revelation

R.P. Miller

#13. Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

Sean Covey

#14. A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

Anthony Capella

#15. I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

Ines De La Fressange

#16. I'll watch anything as long as it's good. I can't choose just one movie that I love.

Georgie Henley

#17. A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

Haruki Murakami

#18. It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.

J.R. Rim

#19. Love is ignorant of time. You can't choose when it hits, or how long it will last. You just enjoy it while it's there.

Lisa S. Lewis

#20. You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

Rick Yancey

#21. Effect and outcome.'
'Exactly. We can assume the best, but we can't choose how people perceive us. We can, however, choose how those views affect us.

Louise Gornall

#22. People which can't choose, should die... So far I don't see where can they go if they are lock in maze?
They will search exit with hours!

Deyth Banger

#23. The second rule is family is a choice."
I thought about that. "You can't choose your family. It's all blood relations."
"Family consists of people you care about, who care about you, who try to make an effort.

C.L.Stone

#24. Because you can choose who you'll be with, but you can't choose who they'll become.

David Vann

#25. We can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. We can't escape who we are.

Donna Tartt

#26. I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can't choose one. I would like to go back to New Zealand to see more of what it has to offer.

Martha Hunt

#27. You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. ~Aladdin

Jessica Khoury

#28. Just because we've been dealt a certain hand doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of destiny that none of us wanted.

Stephenie Meyer

#29. You can't choose the person who really sees you - the person who knows what you're feeling without you saying a word, the person who can make you laugh and cry and everything in between just by looking at you. The one you can't imagine being lucky enough to have, or unlucky enough to lose.

Kami Garcia

#30. If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.

Paula Radcliffe

#31. You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?

Stuart Neville

#32. You can't choose who you love, Kelly, but you can waste it. Why on earth would anyone want to waste it?

Suzanne Brockmann

#33. Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."

Michael Sandel

#34. You can't choose the road you take; you can only hope to avoid the potholes.

Cassia Leo

#35. You can't choose your emotion, but you can chose your response.

Todd Stocker

#36. The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Bar Refaeli

#37. We can't choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones - but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Rodger Kamenetz

#38. You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.

Rosario Dawson

#39. The trouble is, you see, that if you do know Right from Wrong, you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do it and live.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#41. You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

#42. I am not sure that there is a choice, or that there are ever choices. Everything that has happened leads up to the next thing. It can look like a choice, but the way we fall is always determined by what went before. So we can't choose. Stella

Deborah Meyler

#43. I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#44. We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#45. You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

Elizabeth Taylor

#46. Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Alexandra Adornetto

#47. We can't choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.

Victoria Aveyard

#48. We can't choose who we fall in love with....but we can choose when to walk away..

Unknown

#49. What a fine weather today! Can't choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Anton Chekhov

#50. But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.

Neal Shusterman

#51. Sometimes in life we can't choose the path we walk, the path we travel on, but we can choose how we decide to walk our path in life.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#52. You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can't choose to be unaffected by it

Penny Wong

#53. Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

Jim Carrey

#54. You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

Alexandra Potter

#55. You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#56. It's like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can't choose where they're going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don't like it.

Pope Francis

#57. When I was small your grandmother used to say that if you become a police officer, you can't choose who to protect. You have to try to protect everyone.

Fredrik Backman

#58. I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

Martin Fowler

#59. Maybe friendship can't begin until someone chooses you. But ... that doesn't mean you don't get to make a choice too. You can't do that ... unless you know who they are. And they can't choose you ... until they know who you are.

Miyoshi Toumori

#60. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Matisyahu

#61. But I think where a person is born and dies is very important. You can't choose where you're born, but where you die you can
to some degree.

Haruki Murakami

#62. You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't.

Rob Thurman

#63. Sometimes you can't choose what you love.

Scott Westerfeld

#64. Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#65. I want to laugh and cry and scream and run and I can't choose which to do first.

Tahereh Mafi

#66. It's not any easier. We can't choose who we fall in love with. Besides, there's nothing abnormal about two guys being together. Nature made you the way you are and me the way I am. We're already living normal lives.

Jay Bell

#67. We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

Paulo Coelho

#68. You can't choose the time and place, the when and where, and with whom you fall in love.

Sarah Tregay

#69. You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.

Flannery O'Connor

#70. You can't choose someone else's destiny for them, Kelley. And you shouldn't let anyone choose yours.

Lesley Livingston

#71. Can't choose where you come from, Seth. My boys and you know that better than anyone. But you can choose where you end up, and how you get there.

Nora Roberts

#72. But you see, just because we've been ... dealt a certain hand ... it doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above- to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. to try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.

Stephenie Meyer

#73. We can't choose our blood, but we can choose those who run importance in our lives.

Alina Baker

#74. Everyone has regrets, I suppose. You can't choose one path without missing out on another,

Kimberly Derting

#75. We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J.K. Rowling

#76. Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.

Alexander Ovechkin

#77. We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Gabriel Iglesias

#78. I have a lot of 'Twilight' gear. I love the hoodies that say 'vampires' and 'werewolves,' but I refuse to get one because I can't choose; I have to have them both. I have the Team Edward T-shirt, but I also have Team Jacob.

Christian Serratos

#79. Sometimes communicating feels like a never ending maze. You know what you want to say, but you can't choose the right words. Then you go around and around trying to find them. Most of the time you just give up.

Tina J. Richardson

#80. You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Harper Lee

#81. It's the gap in the teeth. My friends say I look like Shrek - some of my friends - and you can't choose your friends, so what can I say?

Louis Oosthuizen

#82. You can't choose your family. Can't shoot 'em either.

Lois Greiman

#83. A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

Hiro Mashima

#84. In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

Octavio Paz

#85. In families one can't choose one's siblings. Within regions one doesn't choose one's neighbors. And if you are one of the world's leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can't really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along.

Howard W. French

#86. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Robert J. Sawyer

#87. We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Sean Covey

#88. I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no matter what anyone else might want for you.

Madeleine George

#89. I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

Andy Rooney

#90. I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Al Sharpton

#91. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.

Cecilia Grant

#92. We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Bill Crawford

#93. Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Elton John

#94. I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.

Alison Mosshart

#95. The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Held Evans

#96. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Avigdor Lieberman

#97. You can't care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it's NOT the time to be satisfying other people's opinions. The difference between what's good for you and what's good for everyone else is happiness.

Chrissy Anderson

#98. And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try." He looks off. "There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.

Celia Mcmahon

#99. A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.

Donna Tartt

#100. The thing about love is, you don't get to choose," Suze said.

"You just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going 'nyah, nyah, gotcha,' and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Jennifer Crusie