3,997 Quotes About Choices

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

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  • Author John Green
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    I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.

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  • Author John W. Gardner
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    If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

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  • Author Jonah Goldberg
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    But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

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  • Author Jon Gruden
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    It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team. It helps when you have your draft choices on your team and in your program because guys do get better. Heck, I got better at my job in my second year.

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