quotations about choice
I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate
Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
T. S. ELIOT
The Rock
We are free up to the point of choice, and then the choice controls the chooser.
MARY CROWLEY
String of Pearls
Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.
MEROVINGIAN
The Matrix Reloaded
No one learns to make right decisions without being free to make wrong ones.
KENNETH SOLLITT
attributed, The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations
What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
speech before the Virginia Democratic Association, Feb. 22, 1899
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
JOHN DEWEY
Psychology
Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.
FRENCH PROVERB
From the cradle bars
Comes a beckoning voice
It sends you spinning
You have no choice
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
"Spellbound"
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
RUSH
"Freewill"
I'm trying to free your mind ... but I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Past and Present
We're not hurtling down a pre-determined path towards a foregone conclusion. We people, all of us, we make thousands of decisions a day, little ones, tiny ones... You take all those choices times all the people in the world...and you have to conclude the future's not set. It can't be. And that's the best part about being alive: it's always new, it's always surprising!
JOE DUBOIS
"Allison Rolen Got Married", Medium
There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
attributed, Quote Unquote
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
The choosy sometimes get the dregs.
JAPANESE PROVERB
There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones.
AGENT PHILLIP BROYLES
"Jacksonville", Fringe
Exercising your own Freedom of Choice in a way that limits anyone else's Freedom of Choice is a direct crime against the Purpose of the Universe.
THOMAS J. CHALKO
The Freedom of Choice