Choice Quotes

Raven looks at me. “What about you, Lena?”I can feel Alex’s eyes on me. My mouth is so dry; the sun is so blinding. I look away, toward the hundreds and hundreds of people who have been driven out of their homes, out of their lives, to this place of dust and dirtiness, all because they wanted the power to feel, to think, to choose for themselves. They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.Coral shifts, and moves her hand to Alex’s arm.“I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

~ Lauren Oliver

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.

~ Ken Kesey

There's a great difficulty in makingchoices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one choiceseems satisfactory for very long by comparison with the aggregate desirability of all the rest, though compared to any *one* of the others it would not be found inferior. All equally attractive but none finally inviting.

~ John Barth

We can't always have our druthers.

~ Harper Lee

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

~ Kathy Reichs

Choice- Everyone has them, so take control!

~ Mordakhi

God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.

~ C.j. Langenhoven

The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

~ Steve Maraboli

And let me tell you my dearest friend,if you think that running away from it is the best solution, then you're wrong.You will never discovered your happiness. Trust me. I know because I've been in the exact situation as you are in now. And yes!There will be heartache and disappointment but you'll never regret the choice you've taken because everything turns out to be beautiful and this, my friend,is how I discovered you as the happiness of my life.

~ Songkee R. Eep

Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.

~ Harley King

Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don't.

~ A.c. Gaughen

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

~ J.k. Rowling

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

~ Julio Cortázar

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

~ Kami Garcia

It’s so strange how one choice can derail so many lives. It was so huge to me, I expected her answer to change everything, but it didn’t. I guess that’s life, right? You never really know what’s waiting for you. You never really know what’s going to happen or why. You just have to be able to deal with it. Big or small.

~ Nyrae Dawn

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

~ Jess Walter

Every choice is limited. That's life.

~ Lauren Oliver

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

~ Patricia Briggs

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

~ Terryl L. Givens

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

~ Julio Cortázar

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

~ John Irving

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

~ Kevin Powers

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

~ Marty Rubin

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.

~ Anthony Liccione

Each and every day begins with a choice, the first influencing the second, the third and so on . . .

~ Evinda Lepins

The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.

~ Ramani Durvasula

To be or not to be, that is the choice

~ Daniel Lee Edstrom

You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice.

~ Steven Denn

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

~ Andrea Dworkin

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

~ Margaret Landon

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

~ C. Wright Mills

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

~ David Levithan

I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses, and his style of conducting his businesses, are also the source of speculation and interest. I have no particular problem with that. But I resent very much that my reputation and my husband’s character should be questioned this way. From the media, Commander, it’s to be expected, but not from my superior officer. Not from any member of the department I’ve served to the best of my ability. I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

~ J.d. Robb

Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out?That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.But not today. Gamache stopped.

~ Louise Penny

The healthy life: It’s not just about losing the weight, it’s about losing the mentality that got you there.

~ Steve Maraboli

...You know something, don't you?I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.Just answer the question.True/false or multiple choice?

~ Neal Shusterman

We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...

~ Dianna Hardy

God never gives you more than you can handle. It's your choice on how you deal with what he gives you. You can either grow from it, or you can lie down and give up.

~ Kendra Sedgwick

But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave me—I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow.

~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

~ David Foster Wallace