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Quotes About Options

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.
~ Unknown
We have tools at our disposal to use or not to use…it's a choice.
~ Unknown
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
~ Peter Drucker
When I was her age, thought Pauline, the options were confusing. They always are. Who'd be young? Everything wide open, which means that the not chosen is discarded. Junked.
~ Penelope Lively
A decision is a judgment. It is a choice between alternatives. It is rarely a choice between right and wrong. It is at best a choice between "almost right" and "probably wrong"—but much more often a choice between two courses of action neither of which is provably more nearly right than the other.
~ Peter F. Drucker
The freedom to choose not to choose. Choosing nothing instead of something.
~ Peter Russell
Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point.
~ Philip K. Dick
Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point. And eventually we choose it, in spite of ourselves. Or we give up and take it deliberately.
~ Philip K. Dick
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
~ Philip Pullman
Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
No, y no es así como las tomamos. Se trata de elegir entre lo malo y lo menos malo.
~ Philip Pullman
The inherent flaw with democratic elections is that they peddle the repulsive stink of neither/nor as the sultry perfume of either/or.
~ David Gustafson
There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
~ David Levithan
That's not how I'd planned it to be. How did you plan it to be? I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious. I planned it to be a million different things, he replies. And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.
~ David Levithan
Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.
~ David Levithan
In short-term affairs, women can be very choosy because they have so many options to chose from.
~ David M. Buss
Fate isn't one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
~ Dean Koontz
It is up to the players and their advisers to see what is best for the player.
~ Didier Deschamps
Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?
~ John Stossel
I was brought up that when things don't work out, you go to your alternative.
~ Wally Funk
I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.
~ Mary Steenburgen