quotations about choice
Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
"The Language of Life"
We are free up to the point of choice, and then the choice controls the chooser.
MARY CROWLEY
String of Pearls
From the cradle bars
Comes a beckoning voice
It sends you spinning
You have no choice
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
"Spellbound"
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Past and Present
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
JOHN DEWEY
Psychology
When you talk about choice
As if it's something we were born with
This choice is for some but not for everyone
THE BLOW MONKEYS
"Choice?"
The more you pick and choose, the more you stand to lose.
YIDDISH PROVERB
A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.
FRENCH PROVERB
Indecision just can't make up your mind
Is there a solution anyway
You say I'm not the only one who could take you there
Choices choices choices
BUZZCOCKS
"Choices", Modern
We're not hurtling down a pre-determined path towards a foregone conclusion. We people, all of us, we make thousands of decisions a day, little ones, tiny ones... You take all those choices times all the people in the world...and you have to conclude the future's not set. It can't be. And that's the best part about being alive: it's always new, it's always surprising!
JOE DUBOIS
"Allison Rolen Got Married", Medium
There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
When you make a choice, you change the future.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents
I'm trying to free your mind ... but I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
Exercising your own Freedom of Choice in a way that limits anyone else's Freedom of Choice is a direct crime against the Purpose of the Universe.
THOMAS J. CHALKO
The Freedom of Choice
There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones.
AGENT PHILLIP BROYLES
"Jacksonville", Fringe
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
attributed, Quote Unquote
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
speech before the Virginia Democratic Association, Feb. 22, 1899