Top 100 Quotes About The Only Choice
#1. 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
#2. Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
Jacob M. Appel
#3. 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
#4. The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
Shannon L. Alder
#5. Pro-choice is the only way to be
because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
Julia Child
#6. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Harold Holzer
#7. Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat politics as if it were a pale imitation of the market, democracy will, indeed, make no sense.
Paul Starr
#8. Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all ... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World
Arundhati Roy
#9. Yet what choice did he have? Nothing about this war was fair. Nothing about being Jewish was fair, The only question that counted was whether he wanted to live or not, and he did.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#10. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
Auberon Herbert
#11. Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
Paul Kagame
#12. The truth is, I want my choice to drive a knife right through my father's heart, to pierce him with as much pain and embarrassment and disappointment as possible. There is only one choice that can do that.
Veronica Roth
#13. My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.
Michael Gurnow
#14. You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.
Gary Hopkins
#15. In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is the choice that loses. Ecclesiastical history, like any other, is written by the victors.
Eric A. Eliason
#16. Stability allows a person the freedom of choice, my friend. People can pursue their dreams only when they are living in a society where survival is not threatened on a daily basis.
Amish Tripathi
#17. The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.
Efim Geller
#18. We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.
Fred Rogers
#19. The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
John Maeda
#20. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
Heraclitus
#21. The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance...
David Whyte
#22. You must make a choice, Libby. I can make you no promises of a fine house or an easy life. I can only pledge that as my wife you will never doubt that I love you and that I will protect you with the last ounce of my strength.
Elizabeth Camden
#23. Wisdom considers not only the cost of a choice, but also its value.
Wes Fesler
#24. The only choice you have right now is the color you want the house painted, and your choices are white and white." She was yelling by the time she finished, her face flushed.
Linda Howard
#25. Does it matter to a man dying in a desert by which choice of route he missed the only well?
C.S. Lewis
#26. She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.
Words gave concepts power.
Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.
Mike A. Lancaster
#27. Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.
Gary L. Francione
#28. Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.
Shilpa Menon
#29. We don't choose the times we're born in, he says. That's the business of the stars. The only choice we got is what we do while we're here. To make it mean somethin.
Moira Young
#30. If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.
Frederick Lenz
#31. I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
Douglas Booth
#32. The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word "conversion" means simply "turning.
Billy Graham
#33. The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
#34. Years later the world confirmed my judgment, but this only pained me, like everything confirmed by the newspapers. We exist, we don't have any other choice, Glenn
Thomas Bernhard
#35. With love you don't bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.
Rumi
#36. A person may use his fundamental right to communicate whatever he likes, but the people like his point as per their personal choice only and not necessarily that which is always fundamentally right.
Anuj
#37. The minutes dragged by as they only did when you had no choice but to wait for something.
Charles De Lint
#38. At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.
David Soul
#39. Knowing a person's true identity - it feels wonderful & painful at the same time. It feels wonderful because you will know a lot more about him. It feels painful because you only have one choice, it is "acceptance".
Jan
#40. War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.
Colin Powell
#41. In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.
Max Anders
#42. His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
John R.W. Stott
#43. Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.
Peggy Orenstein
#44. No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
Paul Keating
#45. Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives ... Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.
Robert McKee
#46. Walking with our heads down trying to pull the weight of our mistakes doesn't make them go away. Choice it the only thing that conquers regret. Choosing to learn from our past and waking up with hope on the pillowcase beside us rather than remorse.
Robin Bielman
#47. We cannot change or put right the past, it is our choice whether to be happy in this very moment. The present is all we have and problems only live in the past or the future.
Kate Skylark
#48. The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky ... "everything else is a choice.
Karen Thompson Walker
#49. One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.
Harold Bloom
#50. He who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
Mary Astell
#51. We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless.
Targassat of Surang.
Karen Traviss
#53. We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.
Cora Carmack
#54. You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.
Kristen Proby
#56. The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.
Alain De Botton
#57. You should always have a worst case point. The only choice should be to get out quicker.
Richard Dennis
#58. Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
David M. Kelley
#60. I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have death to hurry them on. Near or far, the end is always in sight. We have no time to stand and stare. Make your choice, Fernanda.
Jan Siegel
#61. Cages everywhere I went. I was no better off in Saxonia, excepting only for the threat of vigorous, royal incest. Perhaps this also means that a princess is only a particularly desirable kind of monstrous creature--a lure that must be kept in a box at all times.
J.M. McDermott
#62. If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.
Tom Robbins
#63. It didn't matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel's.
"Jace," she said.
Cassandra Clare
#64. Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#65. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?
James K. Morrow
#66. We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.
Thomm Quackenbush
#67. There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
David Levithan
#68. On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#69. Sometimes a person can find theirself lost in the barren deserts of life. The only way out of these deserts is to stay ... positive. They can wander through them for a day or forty Years ... It's completely their choice.
Timothy Pina
#70. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.
Alex London
#71. Success-minded people make a decision to achieve a goal and never have to make that decision again. They will be faced with a choice or some new circumstances to deal with, but the decision to achieve the goal is not in question. They have only to make adjustments along the way.
John Patrick Hickey
#72. I was risking the chance at a new life on uncertainty, and the only thing that was certain was that if I ever returned, I'd come back to no life at all. I collapsed to the floor. I had made my choice.
Karina Halle
#73. There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#74. Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things ... But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#76. The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager.
Pearl Zhu
#77. True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#78. Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.
Timothy Keller
#79. Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.
Martin Amis
#80. You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.
Julianna Baggott
#81. I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#82. I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one time in their lives. The fisherman held a rod in his hand and said yes and the painter held a brush in his hand and said yes and sometimes I hold a beer in my hand and say yes.
Sherman Alexie
#83. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#84. The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.
Veronica Roth
#85. Experiencing vulnerability isn't a choice - the only choice we have is how we're going to respond when we are confronted with uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
Brene Brown
#86. If employers begin to use algorithms to infer how intelligent you are or whether you use drugs, then your only choice will be to game the system - or,
Christian Rudder
#87. Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.
Dan Brown
#88. You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.
Raphael Zernoff
#89. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#90. In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Mary Augusta Ward
#91. Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.
David Arnold
#92. I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.
Mark Cuban
#93. I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision ... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
Barbara Deming
#94. The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
Hattie McDaniel
#95. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness.
Neil Gaiman
#96. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give.
John Connolly
#97. Better the devil you know.
I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.
Patrick Ness
#98. At birth man is offered only one choice
the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#99. The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend. Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by Your will, not ours. And it is fit Our only choice should be to die Into that rest, or out of it.
Wendell Berry
#100. Create simple ways to prove the Divine exists in every aspect of your life and then make the choice to cast your gaze only upon those things that make your heart sing loudest.
Molly Friedenfeld
