quotations about choice
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
Did it ever occur to you that you're so caught up in trying to make the right choice that you've never stopped to consider the possibility that there may not be a right choice, or a wrong choice, just a bunch of choices?
JACK McPHEE
"A Winter's Tale", Dawson's Cree
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
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
PATRICK NESS
Monsters of Men
When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER
The Virginian
You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Survivor
Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.
BARRY SCHWARTZ
The Paradox of Choice
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
There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid. Confused. Without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days.
LUCAS SCOTT
"Things I Forgot at Birth", One Tree Hill
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
JIM BUTCHER
White Night
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
FLORA WHITTEMORE
attributed, Quote Unquote
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Committed
How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?
KENNETH BURKE
Towards a Better Life
It is only the superior man who can make a right choice.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
The Bending of the Bough
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
Bending of the Bough
He who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
Anatomy of a Melancholy
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Proud Highway
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Sexing the Cherry