Choice Quotes - page 3

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Edmund Burke)
I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none. View quote
Robert Frost
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t. View quote
Margaret Mead
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him. View quote
George R. R. Martin
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother. View quote
Jane Goodall
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. View quote
Ralph Nader
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. View quote
Willie Nelson
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. View quote
Amy Tan
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? View quote
Joan Didion
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. (Chuck Palahniuk)
There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles. View quote
Stephen Covey
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. View quote
Stephen Covey
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. View quote
William Faulkner
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. View quote
Keanu Reeves
And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd. View quote
William Wordsworth
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. View quote
William Wordsworth
All the big powers...they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. (Barbara De Angelis)
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get. View quote
Richard Russo
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. View quote
Eugen Drewermann