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Quotes About Choice

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
~ Leo Buscaglia
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
The dignity of man is in free choice.
~ Max Frisch
Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
~ Plato
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
~ Rachel Gibson
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
~ Roger Ebert
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
~ Scott Ian
FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.
~ Stuart Symington
No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
~ Thomas Hobbes
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
~ C.S. Lewis
If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
~ Billie Burke
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
~ C. S. Lewis
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
~ Robin Hobb
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
~ Tony Cascarino
O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
~ William Shakespeare
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
~ William Shakespeare
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
~ Halle Berry
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
~ Honore de Balzac