quotations about choice
When you make a choice, you change the future.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision.
HERBERT V. PROCHNOW
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Choice, therefore, is the test and measure of us; for whoso cannot have everything must needs pitch his choice, and he will pitch it as his nature is, high or low.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice--their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
speech, Oct. 9, 1956
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
JEAN ROSTAND
The Substance of Man
There's small choice in rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Taming of the Shrew
The choosy sometimes get the dregs.
JAPANESE PROVERB
The man who can't make a choice makes a choice.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER
The Virginian
Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
PATRICK NESS
Monsters of Men
Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take to be so is in our power, that we might have refused it. If the fire consume the stable, it choseth not so to do, because the nature thereof is such that it can do no other.
RICHARD HOOKER
Ecclesiastical Polity
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
Bending of the Bough
Life is not made up of a single moment, it's made up of a gazillion moments. What defines us is the choice we make in the next moment, and the one after that.
HENRY SPENCER
"Murder?...Anyone?...Anyone?...Bueller?", Psych
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
STEVEN D. WOODHULL
attributed, Quote Unquote
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen.
CHARLES LAMB
Essays of Elia
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.
IRISH PROVERB
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Understanding the power of choice is of infinite importance. We were created with the power of individuality, with the freedom to think and to act. Since humanity's creation, though, this freedom has been under attack. To some, freedom is a threat or problem that must be controlled. Freedom, these would say, is a nuisance that leads to trouble. Others, though, see this freedom or power as essential and have gone to great lengths to preserve it, even to the point of shedding their own blood in its defense. This freedom, the power of choice, is the issue of a great cosmic, universal controversy that has lasted for millennia. Even though incredible effort and resources have been devoted to eradicating this freedom, it has been preserved. Choice survives.
JIM ROY
Soul Shapers