Top 54 You Didn't Choose Me Quotes
#1. I didn't choose you.
You didn't choose me.
We were thrown together in tragedy,
Joined by circumstance.
A hero and his hindrance.
A knight and his damsel.
Tara Hart
#2. It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.
Erin McKean
#3. The good thing about being gay was always that you didn't have a wedding. People would say, "He's gay, but at least he didn't make us go to his wedding. He didn't make us fly across the country. He didn't make us choose between the fish and the beef."
David Sedaris
#4. I didn't choose the Nerd Life. The Nerd Life chose me. Awkwardly and without making eye contact.
John Scalzi
#5. Maybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.
Cora Carmack
#6. I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.
Melody Beattie
#8. Love wasn't something you decided. It was thrust upon you at the most inopportune times in your life. You didn't choose when or who to love, love chose you.
Holly Hood
#9. I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig
#10. If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn't have chosen me."
"Maybe I didn't choose," she dared. "Maybe it just happened.
Megan Duke
#11. I didn't choose, you know that? I didn't choose to be his son.
John Tiffany
#12. I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be.
Arlene Dickinson
#14. In the past that you should choose a list of female action superhero movies that haven't worked. I don't believe they haven't worked because they had a female in the lead, I believe they didn't work because they weren't good. They weren't technically well done movies.
Kevin Feige
#15. It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair.
John-Talmage Mathis
#16. Sam was your brother, and Trick was your friend, but what they did had nothing to do with you. You don't have to choose. Just because me and your dad couldn't live together, didn't mean you had to stop loving one of us, did it? Doesn't work like that. Love doesn't work like that.
C.J. Flood
#17. Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn't choose - or at least one we wouldn't prefer.
Michael Hyatt
#18. You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.
Jan Strnad
#19. Truth is something that happens whether or not we see it, or believe it, or write about. Truth just is. We can call it something else, or pretend it didn't happen, but its repercussions live with us, whether we choose to remember and acknowledge it or not.
Anonymous
#20. It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.
Barbara Stanwyck
#21. But when it comes to life or love, I choose life. I'm here right now, ready to live and love another day. I could never regret that. I'm glad you didn't love me. You gave me my life by doing so.
Karina Halle
#22. When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#23. I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson
#24. I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.
Hope Davis
#25. I can't go on like this, I told myself. And You can't possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. God didn't argue. Forced to choose between my nostalgia for the faith of my childhood and my dignity as an adult, I put down the doll and drove away.
Joanna Brooks
#26. If life didn't end,' he said, 'there would be no need for me. To choose love in the face if death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more that it otherwise might have been.
Martha Brockenbrough
#27. He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.
Georgette Heyer
#28. That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.
Kelly Lynch
#29. I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
Tupac Shakur
#31. And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.
Ally Carter
#32. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest. Levi wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't family. She didn't choose him.
Rainbow Rowell
#33. Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.
Jackie Haze
#34. I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.
Rob Corddry
#35. Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
Walker Evans
#36. If life didn't end... there would be no need for me to choose love in the face of death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more than it otherwise might have been.
Martha Brockenbrough
#37. I didn't do it to look nice," she said.
"But you do care."
Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#38. Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)
Rachel Gibson
#39. When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
Hilary Mantel
#40. I keep one eye on the path I didn't choose every day.
Taylor Swift
#41. I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Juliette Binoche
#42. In many states, voters didn't get to choose their own members of Congress. Members of Congress got to choose their own voters.
Ian Millhiser
#43. I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
Beatrice Dalle
#44. You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#45. What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
Blake Shelton
#46. Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
Beth Ditto
#47. At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.
Nobuyuki Fukumoto
#48. I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.
Felipe Esparza
#49. I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
Aaron Tveit
#50. What else do you do with a life you didn't choose and can't get out of? You adapt and take whatever crumbs you can find so you don't let your soul or body starve.
Julia Kent
#51. The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
Dick Cheney
#52. I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.
Jim Gaffigan
#53. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.
Jessica Khoury
#54. In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
Alan Keyes
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