Have No Choice Quotes

#1. Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils.

Vicious

#2. So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.

Frank Carlucci

#3. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

Anthony Doerr

#4. Get angry, and then make something out of it. Don't fight unless you have no choice, and even then you don't waste time. You end it quick.

Kit Rocha

#5. Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth."
"Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown.

Darynda Jones

#6. We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.

Frederick Lenz

#7. There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

J. Michael Straczynski

#8. And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

Robert Musil

#9. You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.

Frederick Lenz

#10. WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.

Erin Hunter

#11. She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.

Padma Lakshmi

#12. Those with lives filled with laughter and sorrow,
Have no choice but to live between the two, in borrow.
Where is the green garden of love, that's infinite?
More than sorrow and laughter, plenty of fruits in it.

Rumi

#13. I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Richard Price

#14. Slavery still exists. And now that I know it does, I have no choice but to do something about it. Further, now that you know it does, you have no choice but to do something about it.

David Platt

#15. It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice.

Blake Nelson

#16. The people are in need of a dose of terror. They must feel that they have no choice, can effect no change, or we will have more change than we currently know how to handle.:

Sharon Cameron

#17. I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

Sasha Grey

#18. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

James A. Baldwin

#19. Sometimes a moment of clarity shines so brightly, you have no choice but to walk into the light - or hide under the rug.

Cathryn Louis

#20. I can help you, you know," he says so sincerely I feel I have no choice but to believe him.
"What are you talking about?"
"facing your fears. Even the little ones can cripple us.

Karina Halle

#21. Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.

Emy Storey

#22. He extends a hand, larger than a dinner plate, and I have no choice but to shake it. I think I can feel my metacarpals shattering. Julian jumps to summon our waitress again, mostly to avoid shaking hands with this Goliath. "And a pitcher of mimosas, as soon as humanly possible.

Kristopher Jansma

#23. The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,

William Maxwell

#24. Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

Jordin Sparks

#25. People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.

Andre Vltchek

#26. I have no problem today letting people know I'm part of what they live. That's why I know about the things that make people the assholes they are. They have no choice but to be part of it.

Andrew Dice Clay

#27. To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#28. The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Barbara Kingsolver

#29. The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom

Nelson Mandela

#30. We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Archibald MacLeish

#31. The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

George Carlin

#32. When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

Kamal Ravikant

#33. Where you quietly know within, you have no choice.

John De Ruiter

#34. My mind is saying I'm losing what's left of it...my heart is saying I have no choice.

Michelle B. Smith

#35. I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

Antonio Tabucchi

#36. War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice, once you know. Once you really know.

Laini Taylor

#37. Love is a leap of faith. There are no guarantees. Whether it's a lover or a child or a dog, you love because you have no choice. So figure out what you want,

Wendy Tyson

#38. If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

Harry Belafonte

#39. Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#40. What's the point of doing what you're told if you have no choice in the matter?

Cassandra Kemper

#41. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir
but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

John Steinbeck

#42. If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

Michael Moore

#43. The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

Wright Morris

#44. Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

Charlie Ergen

#45. If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

David Suzuki

#46. The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

Guy Finley

#47. Globalization has not only lost its promise but is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, as the banner of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, 'Another world is possible!'

Walden Bello

#48. If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't ... "
Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper."
You'll have no choice.

Frank Beddor

#49. Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

Nathan Myhrvold

#50. People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

Daisaku Ikeda

#51. That's what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark.

Rebecca Tsaros Dickson

#52. Forty years' worth of days, and ones like those are the ones I remember most, not because I want to but because I have no choice.

Ravi Howard

#53. While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

Eric Maisel

#54. The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

Neal Shusterman

#55. Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back!

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#56. I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

Rashida Jones

#57. He looks down at me with sincere eyes. 'If I were human, I would have been the first in line for you ... ' He looks away. 'But I'm not. I'm an archangel, and my people are in trouble. I have no choice but to try to set things straight. I can't get distracted by a Daughter of Man.

Susan Ee

#58. We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

Dave Eggers

#59. Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

Alan Greenspan

#60. Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Fiona Apple

#61. In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

Zoe Cassavetes

#62. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

Lauren Oliver

#63. People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

Terry H. Anderson

#64. The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

Dan Gilroy

#65. That is why conservatives are attacking the infrastructure of public education in the country. They have no choice. They are up against an infrastructure full of nurturers, and they don't like it one bit - and they shouldn't like it one bit.

George Lakoff

#66. The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste ... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

Sunita Narain

#67. When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense - to fight the government.

Alexander Hamilton

#68. We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

Michael LeBoeuf

#69. 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

#70. I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.

Marla Maples

#71. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

John Irving

#72. I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

Ian Somerhalder

#73. If you keep working that hot little tongue against mine, I'll have no choice but to fuck you.

Tessa Bailey

#74. I don't think you have talent!!
But... I guess Fuuka will do.
I have no choice!

Kiyohiko Azuma

#75. To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice.

Malcolm Gladwell

#76. But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Sarah Dessen

#77. Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

Eric Maisel

#78. Whatever the composition of this new world might be, I surely have no choice but to accept it in silence.

Haruki Murakami

#79. Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

Harrison Ford

#80. May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#81. Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

Corey Feldman

#82. If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

Natsuo Kirino

#83. A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

Cinda Williams Chima

#84. If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Rita Dove

#85. When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

Dan Shechtman

#86. I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

Jordan Belfort

#87. The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Theodor Adorno

#88. Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

Mercedes Lackey

#89. If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Lana Del Rey

#90. Those who lack imagination have no choice but to base their conclusions on the reality they see around them. But on the other hand, those who are imaginative have a tendency to build fortified castles they have designed themselves, and to seal off every window. And so it was with Kiyoaki.

Yukio Mishima

#91. Ro winks. "I forgive you, Dol-face."
Then, without a word, he takes off running and I have no choice but to follow.

Margaret Stohl

#92. Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

Joshua Foer

#93. The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

Terence Fisher

#94. I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice. It's inevitable, which is why I have no regrets.

Twyla Tharp

#95. I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

Michael Arad

#96. When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

Al Sharpton

#97. Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?" He says, "Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did.

Anthony Doerr

#98. I'm not letting go of you until i absolutely have no choice.

Kahlen Aymes

#99. My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.

Valerie Simpson

#100. I hate how books do this to you. They destroy your soul, pick and prod them till the bleed, stab your eyes so you have no choice but cry, yet ... " she paused, "yet you cannot help but love them.

Darby Browne