You 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. 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

#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. There is no such thing as destiny..
you always have a choice..
and what you choose becomes your destiny. - ME (Rohit Joshi)

Rohit Joshi

#5. I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.

Marlon Wayans

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.

Seth Godin

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.

Alice Englert

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Patrick Ness

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.

Christopher Bollen

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

Michael Zaslow

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Ayn Rand

#41. You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Pat Riley

#42. The spirits of the young women are at rest," said Marley, "if you believe the legend." "I am believing that spirits never rest. That is their misfortune. They have no choice but to roam endlessly and never to arrive. It is our belief.

Christopher G. Moore

#43. In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.

Seth Gordon

#44. I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Robin McKinley

#45. Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

Demetri Martin

#46. How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again?
You just do it...Because you have no choice.

Linda Howard

#47. No matter where you are in life ... [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

Blaine Lee Pardoe

#48. No, I'm not ever letting you go." His words were raw with emotion. "I'll let you leave here right now, but I'm not giving up on you. I'll pursue you like I've never pursued anything in my life. I'll fight until you have no choice but to believe that I love you with everything I am.

Laurelin Paige

#49. 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

#50. You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

Tarryn Fisher

#51. There does come a point when you have to acknowledge you're no longer postponing something and you really have made a choice.

Susan Sontag

#52. Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living?

Paul Auster

#53. Wrong answer," Luc said, voice low as he dropped Lyla. "You always have a choice. It's the one thing that no one can strip from us.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#54. There are no extra days. There are no meaningless days. This very day is the day that you can make a choice to stand for something higher and be the person you know in your heart you have always wanted to be.

Robin S. Sharma

#55. Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Patrick Ness

#56. You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

Alan Keyes

#57. When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown ... and pray for an exit

Dan Brown

#58. You can pretend none of this ever happened when you leave, or pretend you had no choice. I don't give a fuck what you have to tell yourself to sleep at night. For the next two weeks you belong to me.

Teresa Mummert

#59. You know why I've survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.

Kage Baker

#60. Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#61. In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#62. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.

L. H. Cosway

#63. It's no different from losing a loved one," he said. "You grieve, but then you have no choice but to go on living your life. You find a way to be happy again. It's not impossible. You just have to decide when you're ready to accept that they're gone.

Julianne MacLean

#64. At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go where the gods will.

Bernard Cornwell

#65. You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

Andy Grove

#66. Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Sarah Kane

#67. When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

Scott Brooks

#68. You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.

Peter Walsh

#69. Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what a book thought without needing to have a confrontation. People, on the other hand, defensively clung to their need to be right no matter how flawed their thinking.

Ted Dekker

#70. Wow ... At least I can rest assured that you definitely can't read my mind," I remarked. "Clearly you know nothing about me ... because the surest way to keep me from doing something is to tell me I have no other choice.

M.A. George

#71. When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

La'el Collins

#72. I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

Mike Hoffman

#73. You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

Bill Henson

#74. In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: "Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice." And that's what I'm doing, because I had no choice.

Marc Maron

#75. Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd.

Elizabeth Wein

#76. The universe uses every experience you have to help you grow and learn. No experience is wasted. Every choice you make and everything that happens to you because of other people's choices become your perfect lessons. As you learn to trust this truth, you will experience less fear and more peace.

Kimberly Giles

#77. Now I'll give you a choice. That train is going to be run. You have no choice about that. But you can choose whether it's going to be run by one of your men or not. If you choose not to let them, the train will still run, if I have to drive the engine myself.

Ayn Rand

#78. A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice ... Each play can become many things.

Mike Nichols

#79. No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen ... You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

John Irving

#80. No matter what situation you're in, you always have a choice.

Richard Brodie

#81. Even though i have no other choice but to marry you ... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy

Amy Dumas

#82. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

Vivek Shanbhag

#83. YOU WILL! YOU CAN! YOU MUST! YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. YOU WILL OVERCOME.

Chuck Pagano

#84. Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.

Marc Maron

#85. When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.

Daniel Mackler

#86. Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

Harrison Birtwistle

#87. You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#88. Did you let him know that if he can't see fit to return your blow job immediately, you will have no choice but to sue?

Meg Cabot

#89. No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Dean Koontz

#90. You do not allow these to flow, which is to say to be released; therefore, they have no choice but to stagnate. Good impulses die for lack of being acted on. Love grows timid and afraid when not expressed. Hatred and anxiety loom larger than life.

Deepak Chopra

#91. When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

Iyanla Vanzant

#92. Like I said," MeLaan said. "He's set it up so that you have no choice - so far as you see it."
"You see it differently?"
"I've been a lot of people, Ladrian. Seen through a lot of eyes. There's always another perspective, if you look hard enough.

Brandon Sanderson

#93. Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.

Ryan Lilly

#94. You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.

Danny Elfman

#95. You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

Nicholas Kristof

#96. There are those who act," he said. "And those who are acted upon. I'm not ever going to leave you in a position again where you have no choice.

John D. Brown

#97. Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don't always have the guts to make it.

Ray N. Kuili

#98. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

Anthony Doerr

#99. Get angry, and then make something out of it. Don't fight unless you have no choice, and even then you don't waste time. You end it quick.

Kit Rocha

#100. Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth."
"Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown.

Darynda Jones