Choice Quotes

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself.

~ G.r. Reader

Like the swimming rats in Richter’s experiment, we can survive for only so long without solid ground beneath our feet; if the choices aren’t real, sooner or later we will go under. It’s important, therefore, that we examine our assumptions about choice and that we openly discuss how, when and why it falls short.

~ Sheena Iyengar

A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

At its best, choice is a means by which we can resist the people and the systems that seek to exert control over us. But choice itself can become oppressive when we insist that it is equally available to all. It can become an excuse for ignoring inequities that stem from gender or class or ethnic differences, for example, because one can blithely say, “oh, but they had a choice! We all have choices.

~ Sheena Iyengar

God gave a choice to Adam and Eve to eat the fruit which caused death and pain to all mankind. How is that different than allowing a choice regarding abortion? A person may make the choice to end one life but god allowed a choice that impacts every man, woman and child that has ever been and ever will be. If we strive to follow the image of god how can we outlaw choices and deny the same rights, freedoms and choices that god allowed? We shouldn't determine the choices of others.

~ C. L. Ferguson

When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the best possible choice for us. When the options are practically infinite, though, we believe that the perfect choice for us must be out there somewhere and that it’s our responsibility to find it. Choosing can become a lose-lose situation: if we make a choice quickly without fully exploring the available options, we’ll regret potentially missing out on something better; if we do exhaustively consider all the options, we’ll expend more effort (which won’t necessarily increase the quality of our final choice), and if we discover other good options, we may regret that we can’t choose them all.

~ Sheena Iyengar

In this life I choose you.

~ Truth Devour

Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

There is a quality about women who choosemen sparingly,it appears in their walkin their eyesin their laughter and in theirgentle hearts.

~ Charles Bukowski

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

~ Brian Greene

If our reputation rests on the decisions we make, then Abishag has impeccable taste. If fragrance is worn to make a personal statement, then the unchosen Abishag has publicly proclaimed her allegiance. She has put on the scent of her lord, for her lord. She belongs to him. Every facet of her character proclaims rejection of other, so-called, 'shepherds.' Whether he chooses her, or not, she has chosen him.pg 36

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Choice, is what presents us with a multitude of paths, because choice creates a flow of electrons through the brain in a manner that inexorably leads to quantum superposition, and the many-worlds that are the inevitable result.

~ Kevin Michel

«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

~ Juliet Marillier

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

~ Judith Warner

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

~ Michael Dimarco

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

~ Enrico Fermi

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

That's what I like about the modern world: choice. We all choose what we have to live with.

~ Dorothy Koomson

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

~ Louise Penny

I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

~ Bill Konigsberg

Ludlow put a hand on his arm. A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.

~ F.e. Higgins

Choose to be the best version of you.

~ Truth Devour

Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.

~ Olivia Fuller

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours.

~ Tami B Harriott

You have a choice in everything in life, so keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make makes you.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We are always - always- in choice.

~ Patti Digh

There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.

~ Truth Devour

There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.

~ Kelly Barnhill

I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in which every claim for gay rights is bases on pseudoscientific sulking about how we can’t help being queer; we’re just born that way. Thanks, but I don’t want to receive my civil rights as a charity fuck bequeathed on me by my genetic superiors.

~ Patrick Califia-Rice

People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.

~ J. Matthew Nespoli

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

~ Lauren Oliver

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

~ Daniel Keyes

We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.

~ Moffat Machingura

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

~ David Levithan