Quotes About Choice

Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Auden Letter to Lord Byron Banker or Landlord, booking clerk or pope, Whenever he's lost faith in choice and port, Whenever man sees the future without hope Whenever he endorses Hobbes report, The life of man is nasty, brutish, short, The Dragon rises from his garden border, And promises to set up Law and Order.

And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

I know what I want, but I'm not allowed to pick a favorite.If I was to say one guy, that guy would be feeling like 'I got this,' and I want everybody to have a chance.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

We live by choice, not by chance.

Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'

One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.