3,997 Quotes About Choices
- Author Dorothea Dix
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[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
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- Author Esther Dyson
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People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
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- Author Frederick Douglass
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These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.
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- Author Guy Debord
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
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- Author Henry Van Dyke
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
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- Author James Denton
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I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.
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- Author James Dean
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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- Author James Dobson
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I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
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- Author Joan Didion
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We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.
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