quotations about choice
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice--their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
speech, Oct. 9, 1956
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
There's small choice in rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Taming of the Shrew
The choosy sometimes get the dregs.
JAPANESE PROVERB
Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
The man who can't make a choice makes a choice.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
JEAN ROSTAND
The Substance of Man
I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.
JOE BIDEN
acceptance speech, Aug. 27, 2008
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
When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER
The Virginian
Where there is force there is no choice.
JOHN JORTIN
Sermons on Different Subjects
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
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
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
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
PATRICK NESS
Monsters of Men
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
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen.
CHARLES LAMB
Essays of Elia
It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.
IRISH PROVERB
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