Forced To Choose Quotes

#1. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Warren Buffett

#2. 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

#3. IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.

Greg Iles

#4. A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you.

Chaim Potok

#5. One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.

Garry Kasparov

#6. No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

Andrew Sullivan

#7. Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Tim Johnson

#8. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

Dean Spade

#9. Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

Susan Faludi

#10. It was typical, he thought, that it had come to this. One minute he was happily selling forged certificates and making good money and the next he was forced to choose between torture, amputation or leaping into a pile of corpses. It was the kind of thing which always seemed to be happening to him.

C.S. Quinn

#11. It's painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously and with such a straight face that you know they've just got to believe you're an idiot.

David Foster Wallace

#12. No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

Rachel Brosnahan

#13. The Them hesitated. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. They left.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Life doesn't always give us a choice between right and wrong. Occasionally, we are forced to choose between two rights or two wrongs...

Assegid Habtewold

#15. Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Will Durant

#16. I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Woody Allen

#17. Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

Neil Gaiman

#18. The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

W.B.Yeats

#19. Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

Patricia Heaton

#20. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

Jared Diamond

#21. If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

David Gelernter

#22. If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.

Jen Lancaster

#23. People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability; freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom. The majority choose the latter.

Svetlana Alexievich

#24. When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

Shia Labeouf

#25. I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Howard Zinn

#26. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#27. If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.

David Markson

#28. I can't go on like this, I told myself. And You can't possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. God didn't argue. Forced to choose between my nostalgia for the faith of my childhood and my dignity as an adult, I put down the doll and drove away.

Joanna Brooks

#29. Broken hearts show us we've grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next.
We're forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.

Edward Fahey

#30. What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent child's life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put to - sell their bodies, or see their children starve.

Courtney Milan

#31. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Neil Gaiman

#32. We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.

Elizabeth George Speare

#33. You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

W. Clement Stone

#34. The lack of effective and charismatic leaders always forced the Muslim youth to choose the wrong role models.

S. Hussain Zaidi

#35. It's better to be hungry than to be lonely - and i'm not talking about the loneliness that we choose but the loneliness that we are forced to accept - , it's like you don't belong to this world anymore!

Paulo Coelho

#36. XAVIER: No one should be forced to live their life in any way other than how they choose.

Michelle A. Valentine

#37. Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

Elayne Boosler

#38. Some men [ ... ] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Robert Jordan

#39. The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice," Hanalea said. "When that time comes, choose love.

Cinda Williams Chima

#40. It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Thornton Wilder

#41. Pg 619 If he had been left to choose rather than forced to learn

Hanya Yanagihara

#42. relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

Jana Deleon

#43. I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Henri Nouwen

#44. First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

Max Lucado

#45. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#46. [These]were the legitimate acts of self-defense which had been forced upon the Irish people by English aggression... We did not initiate the war, nor were we allowed to choose the battleground.

Michael Collins

#47. There's what you're forced to do, there's what you choose, and everything else - most things - are a mix. At best, you'll spend your life trying not to get hurt, but trying not to do the hurting, either. You won't always come through, but it's the best anyone can do. It's the trying I'd call good.

Alexandra Duncan

#48. Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Christine Warren

#49. Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills and to see the world.

Leslie T. Chang

#50. If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.

Scarlett Alice Johnson

#51. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

Victor Hugo

#52. People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

Bassem Youssef

#53. Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures?

Stifyn Emrys

#54. Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#55. Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

Billy Joel

#56. A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each crime becomes more brutal, she is forced to play devil's advocate as she chooses the next target.
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Caroline Mitchell