Top 100 Choice Quotes
#1. You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword
Laurell K. Hamilton
#2. In life, we have no control over the storms that we encounter. It's normal to feel devastated and sad, but to continue being sad is already our choice.
Kcat Yarza
#3. The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes
Agona Apell
#4. She didn't want to close herself into this bad-smelling room with the old woman, but when there was no choice, hesitation was ever a fault.
Stephen King
#5. I dream of a society that is continuously creating knowledge, where each individual is a part of this creation, where youngsters can pursue courses with freedom of choice, where technology is used for universal access of education and yet the importance of the Guru is retained.
Narendra Modi
#7. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#8. Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?
Bill Maher
#9. All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
John Wesley
#10. Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
Walter Darby Bannard
#11. Life loves to take your perfect plans and dump a bucket of paint on them. It's your choice to call it garbage or make something beautiful of it.
Stephanie Erickson
#12. Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their friends, are trying to put out this meme that we are denying women their choice.
Asra Nomani
#13. It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.
Gwen Moore
#14. Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.
Milton Jones
#15. I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
Bryn Terfel
#16. The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
George Carlin
#17. Nothing against the music, it's awesome... but going deeper and deeper in Super Genes... it's kind of dry... isn't it???
So I need something bloody!
- Crime is a great choice!
Deyth Banger
#18. That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.
John Lennon
#19. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
Thomas Perez
#20. This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.
Wayne W. Dyer
#21. Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.
Dick Van Dyke
#22. You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?
Jodi Picoult
#24. My life suddenly felt like an hourglass with a decision placed at my feet. Do I live as I am, or do I make a choice to become something else? No matter which way I went, I could end up regretting that choice.
Dannika Dark
#25. In life, some laugh, some cry, some live, some die. The choice is ours to crawl or to fly.-RVM
R.v.m.
#26. If there is ever a choice between money and adventure, choose adventure.
C. Jones
#27. Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
Shawn Achor
#28. Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.
Rush Limbaugh
#29. The King's grace is greater than you know, and the law is become less stern than aforetime; or else no choice would be given you but to abide here to your life's end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
George W. S. Trow
#31. Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.
Tom Robbins
#32. I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.
Harry Reid
#33. called to testify in a court case. Asked to identify himself, he announced that he was the world's greatest architect. When asked how he could make such a statement, he replied, with visible enjoyment and a gleam in his eye, that he had no choice, he was under oath.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#34. If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.
John Mattone
#35. A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words.
Penny Reid
#38. A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides
#39. The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.
Pema Chodron
#40. We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.
Norm MacDonald
#41. There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#42. Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.
Neil T. Anderson
#43. Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
Thomas Aquinas
#44. With every choice I've made, I've learned something new.
Ariana Grande
#45. When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
Ihara Saikaku
#46. Choice- Everyone has them, so take control!
Mordakhi
#47. Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly.
Peter Huber
#48. Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?
Gail Carson Levine
#49. In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.
Robert B. Cialdini
#50. Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.
Isha Judd
#51. Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go.
Troian Bellisario
#52. Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind ... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a choice.
Natalie: No, Jake, that's where you're wrong. Me getting cancer? True enough, I had no choice. How you treat the ones you love? Well, there, you always have a choice.
Allison Winn Scotch
#53. Every road has unexpected curves. We can allow them to interrupt our journey, while wishing they weren't there. Or, we can make adjustments, while all along continuing to move ahead. Ultimately, the choice is ours.
Charles F. Glassman
#54. Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo Coelho
#56. Children's lives are fiendishly hard. Adults, having survived childhood, turn their minds to the future, and if they have a choice, generally retain only the rosiest of childhood memories.
Gregory MacGuire
#57. Agony is not something that happens to you.
To agonize is a choice.
Alan Cohen
#58. Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life.
That's the hope, anyway.
David Rakoff
#59. There is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.
Mark Nepo
#60. Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
Epicurus
#62. Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")
Adele Faber
#63. The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then ... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?
China Mieville
#64. I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
Clemence Poesy
#65. All the specific word choice does is act as a simple frame that impacts our line of reasoning and even our memory
Anonymous
#66. You know, when a person is murdered, you can miss that person and put all of your anger into hating the killer, even if you don't know who the killer is. You also have the choice of forgiveness. But when someone takes her own life, she is the killer.
Sarah Ockler
#67. I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
Henry David Thoreau
#68. [W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.
Alexander Hamilton
#69. I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.
Boris Yeltsin
#70. Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.
Vahid Asghari
#71. Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#72. That's it. Be yourself. Be Isolde Brannick, and they will have no choice but to adore you, He reached out and took my hand, pressing a kiss to the back of it. I was too stunned to do anything but sit there, my hand limp in his.
Rachel Hawkins
#73. You can't be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin ... I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like 'Oh my God, I've got to do this next time! I've gotta go there. I'm going to make this choice.'
Matthew James Thomas
#74. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.
Colleen Hoover
#75. With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
Ron Wyden
#76. Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.
Charles R. Swindoll
#77. I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#78. Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
Heather Brewer
#79. I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.
Heather Mercer
#80. Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.
Tom Morello
#81. Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.
Nina Easton
#82. Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
Harriet Harman
#83. In this information age, swords and knives are no longer the weapon of choice - words are
(The Nature of Cruelty)
L. H. Cosway
#85. Do they know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think its their own choice?
David Wong
#86. My story. I inherited it."
"I think I'd rather inherit money than a story."
"I have that, too, not entirely by my choice."
"You don't want to be rich?"
"God favors the poor. But don't tell rich people that. It'll hurt their little feelings.
Tiffany Reisz
#88. When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
Jarod Kintz
#89. When I do have choice I try to be very picky about ... or shall I say choosey about when I choose. I don't automatically decide that I must be the one to choose or that it's important for me to make every choice in my life.
Sheena Iyengar
#90. I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.
George W. Bush
#91. My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.
Mili Avital
#92. The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.
Marvin Ammori
#93. Everyone just calls me Emby."
"Is that your choice, or theirs?" asks the Admiral.
"Well ... theirs, mostly-but I got used to it."
"Never let anyone else name you," says the Admiral.
Neal Shusterman
#94. And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
Joseph Conrad
#95. If I thought last night was a onetime thing, I wouldn't be sitting here discussing this with you, but you're putting the stipulation on me that if I want a man, it has to be Ethan - nice choice, by the way ...
Olivia Cunning
#96. Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
Rob Glaser
#97. What am I? A witch, for the love of God! I am a healer, not a destroyer. I have a choice as all human beings have a choice! And
Anne Rice
#98. In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
John Steinbeck
#99. Good choice, Polly," she soothes, caressing my long, dark hair.
"You may not have been fucked by a woman before but, if you're a good girl now, then you soon will be ...
Felicity Brandon
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