3,997 Quotes About Choices

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether its the right choice.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.