3,997 Quotes About Choices

You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.