quotations about choice
There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid. Confused. Without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days.
LUCAS SCOTT
"Things I Forgot at Birth", One Tree Hill
It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.
IRISH PROVERB
Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take to be so is in our power, that we might have refused it. If the fire consume the stable, it choseth not so to do, because the nature thereof is such that it can do no other.
RICHARD HOOKER
Ecclesiastical Polity
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision.
HERBERT V. PROCHNOW
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.
BARRY SCHWARTZ
The Paradox of Choice
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
JIM BUTCHER
White Night
Life is not made up of a single moment, it's made up of a gazillion moments. What defines us is the choice we make in the next moment, and the one after that.
HENRY SPENCER
"Murder?...Anyone?...Anyone?...Bueller?", Psych
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
He who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
FLORA WHITTEMORE
attributed, Quote Unquote
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
The Bending of the Bough
It is only the superior man who can make a right choice.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Sexing the Cherry
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Proud Highway
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
Anatomy of a Melancholy
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Committed
Nothing is fun when you don't have a choice.
FREDERIK POHL
Gateway
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
Bending of the Bough