Quotes About Second Choice

#1. I think there is choice possible at any moment to us, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice

Muriel Rukeyser

#2. I don't want to be someone's second choice.

Colleen Hoover

#3. There are only two choices in life: Fight. or crawl in a corner to die. The second choice, while tempting at times, is never acceptable.

Jonathan Heatt

#4. A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Michael Caine

#5. Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

Wavy Gravy

#6. I knew he never loved me like he loved her, but I wanted him anyway. I knew his love for me was conditional, but I wanted him anyway. I knew I was second choice, but I wanted him anyway.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

Martin Jol

#8. Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.

Kate Madison

#9. Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?

Tom Haikin

#10. Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

Tony Blackburn

#11. People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him.

Mara Liasson

#12. There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Alison Lurie

#13. Sometimes," my grandfather put in, "even if you can't be what you want, making the most of what you can be isn't a bad second choice. You have a chance to remake yourself, baby girl.

Chloe Neill

#14. At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

Oleg Cassini

#15. When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Kim Wilde

#16. My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

Peter O'Toole

#17. I don't want Sydney ever to feel like my second choice, when I know in my heart that she's the right choice. The only choice.

Colleen Hoover

#18. I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Noel Clarke

#19. Sorry to be your second choice."
"Don't be stupid. Third choice. Mum's asleep, remember?" He laughs again.

Stephanie Perkins

#20. That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.

Bianca Kajlich

#21. The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Diane Duane

#22. It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice

Morgan Matson

#23. France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?

A Meredith Walters

#25. If in life you choose something that is your second choice, whether it be clothes, a relationship, or a career, then don't choose it. Wait until you can have your first choice. Never settle for second best.

Steven Aitchison

#26. I felt like everyones second choice, which is why a compliment could catch me off guard. Page 106

Sonia Sotomayor

#27. Because, shit for brains, she'd like you to disappear and leave her alone. I'm sure she'd like to stuff you in a hole, but since that isn't going to happen, second choice is you go home to your new wife and leave her the hell alone. You get that? Greg

Robyn Carr

#28. If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Nikki Giovanni

#29. Everything other than being the second choice is hazardous of all the sins.

Swatii Chandak

#30. Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

John Frankenheimer

#31. AWAY OF EASING THE BURDEN THAT FREEDOM OF CHOICE IMPOSES IS to make decisions about when to make decisions. These are what Cass Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit call second-order decisions. One kind of second-order decision is the decision to follow a rule.

Barry Schwartz

#32. I know heroes exist because i'm my little brother's hero. It isn't easy, it's not always fun, it's full of hard choices, and sometimes you have to put yourself second to help the people you love. But being a hero is a choice

Chris Colfer

#33. If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine ... look into that second, less painful career.

Richard Jeni

#34. When I said I had no choice about helping you, I meant it. There was no other option because you are the only option. I don't trust anything at the moment. But the one thing I am sure of, the one thing I do trust ... " he paused for a fraction of a second, "is the way I feel about you.

Sarah Alderson

#35. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives, and to think and speak about other people in a way that is honoring or dishonoring. What choice are you going to make today.

Gregg Braden

#36. An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.

Philip Greenspun

#37. Often we had no choice: we couldn't reform the whole world. And didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true - which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

#38. You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.

Michael Hyatt

#39. First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?
Second don: State the alternative preferred,
With reasons for your choice.

A.E. Housman

#40. I am the girl
you fool around with,
before you meet
the love of your life.

Sade Andria Zabala

#41. Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

Vladimir Putin

#42. Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.

Winona LaDuke

#43. He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#44. In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

Sylvester McCoy

#45. I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.

Ayelet Waldman

#46. BONN: I thought fatherhood was hard, and some people weren't suited for it. But it's not. Being a father, a good one, I mean, is about making a choice.

Bijou Hunter

#47. What is needed is competence first and enthusiasm first. There is nothing second! Although each or one of these alone is a good start, one without the other is impotent. But if I had a choice I would have enthusiasm first.

Julius Sumner Miller

#48. No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

Jerry Della Femina

#49. So Die Hard is a better choice for action-fu than Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever."
Eastwood snarled at the mention of the second film. "I hated that movie so much, I got my ninety-nine minutes back.

Michael R. Underwood

#50. The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don't always second-guess yourself.

Angela Braly

#51. Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

Mignon McLaughlin

#52. You all think that security and peace are born from destroying everything stronger than you? There is no safety. There is no peace but what you make, every day, every second, with every choice.

Kim Harrison

#53. If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Julian Casablancas

#54. You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers

Horace

#55. People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

Eugen Drewermann

#56. I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.
- Oliver Hazzard-Perry

Melissa De La Cruz

#57. For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and an unspeakable lie.

Ayn Rand

#58. Five feet. Four feet. Three. Two. Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved. Forward. He squeezed past the connecting rods at the last second and stepped into the Maze. The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter.

James Dashner

#59. You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.

Ruth Ozeki

#60. There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.

Irene Gonzalez Frei

#61. I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Kate Walsh

#62. One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Lisa Kleypas

#63. Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

Mariel Hemingway

#64. French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Naomi Wolf

#65. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

Roman Abramovich

#66. You never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

Lauren Conrad

#67. The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Tryon Edwards

#68. There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.

Simone St. James

#69. Each of us each day, each moment, has a choice: give ourselves and others a second chance or turn away.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#70. The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

Chuck Jones

#71. I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

Nina Bawden

#72. I could take you out in a second," she threatens.
If he's concerned, he doesn't show it. "I know."
Somehow he also knows that she won't do it - that the first time was just a reflex. If she were to hurt him a second time, though, it would be a conscious act. It would be by choice.

Neal Shusterman

#73. It's important that a woman doesn't feel like the ugly sister. The second, lesser choice. That's a bitterness that won't sweeten.

Emma Chase

#74. My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

Amber Tamblyn

#75. He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.

Leo Buscaglia

#76. The second tool is a question: Can you reverse X and get the same results? ... If the answer is yes, then your choosing to forgive him can be a feminist choice because it is not shaped by a gender inequality.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#77. Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

Mitt Romney

#78. I do, however, want you . You're not the one I'm stuck with because I didn't get my first choice. If you think you're in love with two people, you pick the second one, right? Because if I really loved T.J., I couldn't have fallen in love with you.

Jamie McGuire

#79. The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Keanu Reeves

#80. No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different..

Cate Tiernan

#81. We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

Ernest Holmes

#82. 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

#83. Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

Muhammad Ali

#84. Six seconds in, six seconds out- no choice anymore. Don't mess this up. If I mess up, even by a second, I have to start the breath cycle all over again. That's the rule. The unbreakable rule.

Kate Ellison

#85. Stupid is forgivable, but ignorance is intolerable. The first is a birth defect, the second is a choice.

Lucee Lovett

#86. A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#87. Olivia dared not ask, but she had to know. It seemed unlikely her husband could have made a worse choice than Jack Dodger, but if he was her husband's first who would serve as his second? The devil himself? Who is appointed as my son's guardian in that will?

Lorraine Heath

#88. If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Lisa Kleypas

#89. Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second.

Brent Weeks

#90. Each and every day begins with a choice, the first influencing the second, the third and so on ...

Evinda Lepins

#91. For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

Vince Vaughn