Choice Quotes

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's s...

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory....

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to ...

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear...

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Its your decision, Simon Lewis," said Magnus. "Remain in the existence you have, go to college, stud...

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from th...

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King R...

The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if sh...

Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up co...

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to s...

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you d...

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That i...

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't...

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin...

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grac...

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels ...

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you wan...

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his ...

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there...

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was ...

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to c...

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind al...

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al...

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of...

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction...

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices an...

I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They wou...

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the ...

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on...

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble our...

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away an...

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building ...

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...an...

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young...

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded...

The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ...

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the...

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a deci...

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, fo...

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or ...

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

We can't always have our druthers.

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, a...

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of h...

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this s...

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It...

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in...

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the la...

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderat...

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocent...

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That...

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big ent...

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting ...

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge a...

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there is...

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have...

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What...

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you o...

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're ju...

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many ...

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implie...

There's a great difficulty in makingchoices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a mu...

I was here on earth because I chose to be.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

Life calls the tune, we dance.