English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Choice Quotes (page 20)

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice. Nick Hornby
We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. John F. Kennedy
Joseph Conrad quote: " it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my..."
... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. Joseph Conrad
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have..."
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. Hunter S. Thompson
Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.” -Bill Hicks Bill Hicks
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. Stephen King
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. Paul Auster
Deepak Chopra quote: "When you make a choice, you change the future."
When you make a choice, you change the future. Deepak Chopra
Malcolm Cowley quote: "but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that..."
...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol. Malcolm Cowley
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. James C. Collins
Chuck Klosterman quote: "When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if..."
When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later. Chuck Klosterman
We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life hasgiven us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasantimpression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected usonto two divergent paths, which were not ours. Primo Levi
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every... Jane Austen
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. Erich Fromm
Well, it's a choice like any other, even though it's stupid to believe we can control the world and to allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security that leaves us totally unprepared for life; because then, when you least expect it, an earthquake throws up a range of mountains, a bolt of lightning kills a tree that was preparing for its summer rebirth, or a hunting accident puts paid to the life of an honest man. Paulo Coelho

Popular Topics

Popular Author