We Have A Choice Quotes

#1. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.

Colleen Mariotti

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.

Meles Zenawi

#5. Very few people voluntarily make things worse for themselves, if they have a choice. You know, there's the way we all like to think we behave, and then there's the way we actually do.

Mhairi McFarlane

#6. Regardless of our circumstances, we always have a choice. We can choose more of the same; or we can recognize this moment is different and that we can be different, too.

Lori Deschene

#7. The importance of knowing for certain that you have been saved cannot be understated. We do not know how many days, hours, or minutes God has granted us here to have an opportunity to make a choice.

Kimberly McRae

#8. 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

#9. Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

Andrew Vachss

#10. If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#11. For years we have heard the phrase "every member a missionary." That is not a choice. It is a fact of our membership. Our choice is to speak to others about the gospel or not.

Henry B. Eyring

#12. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.

Richelle Thompson

#13. Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

LL Cool J

#14. Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#15. All of us are not born with equal opportunities. But over a period of time, regardless of our parentage, place of birth, prospects in our communities, or education, the day comes when we have to make the choice to let our past teach us - or beat us.

Zig Ziglar

#16. I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

Ally Condie

#17. 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

#18. Sometimes all we have to do is make the simple choice to stop being angry or fearful in order to discover the infinite wonders of the Universe that await us behind a door we shut long ago.

Molly Friedenfeld

#19. Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

Gina Greenlee

#20. You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
Raspberry Jam

Angus Wilson

#21. If love was only for the perfect, what a sad and lonely world it would it be. We are the culmination of every good and bad choice we've ever made. Your mistakes have made you into an incredibly fierce and loving woman; one I am

Ruth Cardello

#22. 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

#23. We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

Pema Chodron

#24. Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

P.T. Denys

#25. I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch 'Sophie's Choice' in our homes once a month and sing praise together in a collective cry of shock and awe and devotion.

Jasika Nicole

#26. 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

#27. Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

John N. Gray

#28. We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.

Ray Anderson

#29. If sexuality was a choice, we'd all have very clear memories of the day we chose.

Marshall Thornton

#30. So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

Sherwood Boehlert

#31. I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

Scott Walker

#32. We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#33. We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

Ann Romney

#38. As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

Nathan Wolfe

#39. As human beings we have a choice: we can resist the change and crumble or we can accept the change, experience the feelings they provoke and then consciously respond with the true light of our power. 3.

Robin S. Sharma

#40. 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

#41. But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right . . . and it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men.

Samantha Shannon

#42. 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

#43. Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save ... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

Barbara Coloroso

#44. When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.
We can choose to be taken by the evil.
Or we can try to embrace the good.

Elizabeth Smart

#45. 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

#46. The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that's the public's choice. It'll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?

Glenn Hubbard

#47. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?

Bernard Cornwell

#48. 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

#49. The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

Yehuda Berg

#50. we all have own choice in life, I choose to be positive like a sunshine.

Jan Jansen

#51. 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

#52. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Charles R. Swindoll

#53. So what to do? ... She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.

Reginald Hill

#54. It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Rick Warren

#55. We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Sam Harris

#56. We have a choice to live or exist!

Harry Styles

#57. In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Scott Walker

#58. We have tools at our disposal to use or not to use ... it's a choice.

Lisa A. Mininni

#59. We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.

David Brooks

#60. I believe in giving rewards and positive reinforcement for a job well done, but can we raise ourselves a little higher than the dogs and give rewards that have longer-term benefits? How can a poor food choice be a true reward anyway?

Jill Johnson

#61. 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

#62. Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.

Michael Specter

#63. 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

#64. In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#65. Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#66. Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can't make the decision for us ... we have to make our own choice.

Billy Graham

#67. The heart seeks good but temptation resists evil & God's laws are broken to the extent of the darkness w/in an individual & those who are wicked will be brought to justice pedophiles ect. We have a choice-if we love ourselves we seek good -hate ourselves we seek evil

Terry

#68. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

#69. We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should.

Scott Westerfeld

#70. We all got ugliness inside us, Kellen. Yours is worse? Then fight harder. Figure it out. But don't you ever pretend you don't have a choice.

Sebastien De Castell

#71. Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them?

Ryan Holiday

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#75. Maybe people had no choice but I wonder sometimes what would have happened if everyone without a choice would have made a choice anyway. If we all chose not to participate. Not to be bullied. Not to take up arms. Not to persecute. What would happen then?

Amy Harmon

#76. Destiny is not a matter of fate, it is a matter of choice, and we have some choices to be made here.

Mario Gonzalez

#77. The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

Mary McCarthy

#78. Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams.

John Patrick Hickey

#79. Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

Douglas Rushkoff

#80. A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.

James Gleick

#81. Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#82. The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible.

Dianna Hardy

#83. Today, poor people the world over are seeking opportunity and choice to have greater dignity in their lives - and they want to do it themselves, even if they need a little help. Today we have the tools and technologies to bring real opportunities to people all across the world.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#84. But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it's happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it's scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it's worth it.

Jessi Kirby

#85. The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Jacob Bronowski

#86. When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Eknath Easwaran

#87. Sometimes we don't have a choice in where we come from, but we can definitely choose where we go from there.

Faraaz Kazi

#88. If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

Milan Kundera

#89. In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

Vern Dosch

#90. In this era, we have more choice than any group of people ever. When you are out at night, anyone in the universe can contact you instantly. Think about how crazy that is compared to even a few decades ago.

Aziz Ansari

#91. We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Barack Obama

#92. To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

Cassandra Clare

#93. To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

China Mieville

#94. When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.

Sharon Gannon

#95. She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

Jeanette Winterson

#96. We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice - a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

Greg McKeown

#97. We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

Raul Grijalva

#98. We always have a choice of going after positive or negative, prosperity or poverty, health or disease, success or failure.

Hina Hashmi

#99. We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Leon Kass

#100. Oh, baby sister. We all want things we shouldn't have. Even you. Just because you love him doesn't mean you should. Love is a choice, like anything else.

Kiersten White