Top 100 Have No Choice Quotes
#1. You're coming up to the main house and that's final. I'm laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you're arguing with me, but I'm not taking no for an answer. You have no choice but to obey me. How do you like that, wife?
Mia Sheridan
#2. I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.
Anne Rice
#3. It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.
Thomas Perez
#4. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.
Emmet Fox
#5. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
Jacques Pepin
#6. He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
Andrew Young
#7. in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.
Milton William Cooper
#8. There is no such thing as destiny..
you always have a choice..
and what you choose becomes your destiny. - ME (Rohit Joshi)
Rohit Joshi
#9. No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
John Boehner
#10. A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him.
M.C. Scott
#11. I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.
Marlon Wayans
#12. We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur Golden
#13. You always have a choice, Gaia. You can always say no." His voice was strangely hollow. "They might kill you for it, but you can always say no.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#14. Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.
Cassandra Clare
#15. The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.
Esther Duflo
#16. I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
Shelby Lynne
#17. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.
Lisa Unger
#18. In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.
M.J. Ryan
#19. There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.
Toby Jones
#20. So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.
I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."
That's nice," she said ...
Orson Scott Card
#22. If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.
Sinclair Lewis
#23. Whatever we become in life we either "let happen" or we consciously CREATE to be. One puts you in a VICTIM pit, the other makes you rise a VICTOR. You have to make this choice, YOU have to do the work. No one can do it for you.
Tina Mitchell
#24. There is a bit of a 'once a soap actor always a soap actor' thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If you're good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.
Judi Shekoni
#25. I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
Jonah Hill
#26. What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is ... It was death. I chose life.
Michael Cunningham
#27. Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.
Seth Godin
#28. I hesitate a moment. Wearing his dressing gown seems a bit cutesy. A bit Let me put on your great big manly shirt and allow the sleeves to flap endearingly around my fingers. But I have no choice.
Sophie Kinsella
#29. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.
Alysia Reiner
#30. There's no excuse for giving up just because it looks like we're going to lose. We have to try - because the other choice is to surrender.
L.J.Smith
#31. We write ourselves certain parts and then keep playing them as if we have no choice. But a tardy person can become a punctual one, if she chooses. You don't have to keep being the thing you have become. It is never too late.
Rachel Joyce
#32. When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.
Steve Maraboli
#33. I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.
John Lloyd
#34. This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are - the result of everything that has happened. It all just is.
Richard Templar
#35. I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.
Alice Englert
#36. I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become.
S.J. Watson
#37. Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it's no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.
Bill Konigsberg
#38. When I was on the other side, my reply became, "I can't imagine either, but I have no choice." I
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life,
Gabrielle Zevin
#40. As an atheist you have to rationalize things ... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared
but that's okay!
Billy Joel
#41. We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
Veerappa Moily
#42. You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
Gloria Steinem
#43. The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Albert Schweitzer
#44. If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.
Gerhard Richter
#45. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
Anthony Horowitz
#46. To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
Patrick Ness
#47. Once a critical mass of conversation is on Facebook, then it's hard to get conversation going elsewhere. What might have started out as a choice is no longer a choice after a network effect causes a phase change.
Jaron Lanier
#48. As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
Nathan Wolfe
#49. The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#50. I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.
Josh Kopelman
#51. Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.
Gabrielle Zevin
#52. Kein briere iz oich a breire. Not to have a choice is also a choice. How will we tell the story of he who never had no choice? At stake is our notion of righteousness, of a life worth saving.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#53. I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of the incredible brain-mind relationship ... I have to believe all this had an intelligent beginning.
Robert J. White
#54. Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.
Christopher Bollen
#55. Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
Norman Vincent Peale
#56. I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all ...
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#57. Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
#58. I think you've got no choice but to suffer more. It was your job to save people's lives. You weren't allowed to make mistakes. But nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes at some point in our lives, no matter how hard we try. But every time we do make a mistake, we have to learn from it.
Minari Endou
#59. Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Zhang Yimou
#60. summer of 2011, when the first call to walk the Camino Santiago de Compostela had tugged at my soul, I would not have known this was my why. A tug so fierce I had no choice but to follow, the next years would guide me to
Katharine Elliott
#61. A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
Margaret Mead
#62. Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.
Richard Russo
#63. One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find ... this.
Joe Abercrombie
#64. There are times when the world slips out of control. It's like an accident that is happening too quickly , and you can't stop it, you can't think about it, you have no choice but to lean back and watch as everything changes forever.
James St. James
#65. You would be surprised what you can do when you have no choice. That's what courage is, Xavion. It's the result of facing what you thought would consume you.
Lori Goodwin
#66. In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.
Brett Favre
#67. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
Richard Mitchell
#68. Lucy: Yes, as usual I bought so many books that my food budget ran out. I was left with no choice but to eat bread crusts. But! On the other hand, this means that I was able to feed my word addiction! I feel no shame whatsoever about eating bread crusts!
Hasebe: Have a little shame.
Karino Takatsu
#69. The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.
Jean Cocteau
#70. She just waited. Rosie had no choice. She'd have to do it on her own. She'd do anything for Amy, even hear whatever she was about to hear, on her own. The consultant was in his office. It was as untidy as always. He didn't smile. It wasn't a bad sign. He
Monica McInerney
#71. I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.
Kathy Ireland
#72. What good was owning the world when he'd have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he'd rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.' (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.
Lisa Kleypas
#74. I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.
Elayne Boosler
#75. It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.
Vikas Swarup
#76. MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.
Douglas Coupland
#77. My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
Samantha Harvey
#78. No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.
Simone De Beauvoir
#79. Getting stuck can be the best thing that could happen to us, because it forces us to stop. It halts the momentum of our lives. We have no choice but to notice what is around us, and we end up searching for Jesus.
Michael Yaconelli
#80. When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
Daymond John
#81. All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
Isaac Asimov
#82. They know I have no choice, but if I did, they'd all be dead.
Kiersten White
#83. Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.
Madeleine L'Engle
#84. Now she had no choice about what she had to do. What she would do to protect Dorian. It was what she'd realized last night: she did have someone left - one friend. And there was nothing she wouldn't do to keep him safe.
Sarah J. Maas
#85. No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can't have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice -
Meg Cabot
#86. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.
Seth Godin
#87. Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.
Robert Kagan
#88. If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
Michael Zaslow
#89. I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
Michael J. Fox
#90. I have absolutely no problem with anyone's life choices. What bothers me greatly is, when they try to force those life choices on others, in any manner.
Shon Mehta
#91. The sky is black, so rich and thick it looks warm. It feels as if I can see for miles into that blackness, the stars glimmering white, and as my eyes adjust, there are millions of stars. Billions. And it is time to move on. I have no choice.
Melissa Lion
#92. I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.
John Taylor Gatto
#93. Some things is easy do, when you have no choice in the world but to do them. Like shiteing into bedpan, in front of a nurse.
Donal Ryan
#94. We have no choice. You need to go one direction and I need to go another. But we'll take the love with us. No one can ever take that away.
Angie Stanton
#95. I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
Ed Rendell
#96. Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God's existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose whether or not to believe in Him.
Stephen McAndrew
#97. Never hurt people who love you a lot because they won't hurt you back. but they will probaly have no choice but to leave you forever
Unknown
#98. Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
Neil Gaiman
#100. Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.
Amory Lovins
