Choice Quotes
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Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.
Wavy Gravy
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Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
Epictetus
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The Boy Scouts want to hide for a while and not have to make a choice - and that's only possible if people don't know what they're doing.
Larry Taylor Canned Heat
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It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Most of us learn to trust, not because we’re noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don’t have any other choice.
Chip Ingram
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
Brennan Manning
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I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're on set. I've been told I was the choice for years and never got hired. So I never go there in my mind.
Kaley Cuoco
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
Walker Percy
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I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
Nancy Garden
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The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.
Frank Turner
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Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
Francis Bacon
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
Nathan Wolfe
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
Jasper Fforde
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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
Feist
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
Gary Zukav
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A laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.
Lisa See
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
Patricia Schroeder
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Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy.
Amy Dumas
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
Jack Bowman
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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
Kate Hudson
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon
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A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
Max Frisch