Quotes About Choice

one might say that my entire life has been a wager against chance—

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

But that wouldn't happen to us. I'd read a book of John Barth's, The End of the Road, and I'd absorbed its most important lesson. When you have to make a choice, and all else fails, take the one on the left.

One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves.

There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.