Quotes About Choice And Chance

“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for making the growth choice rather than the fear choice.”

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Your eternal destiny will not be the result of chance but of choice.”

— Randall K. Bennett

“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.”

— Jean Nidetch

“By chance we met, by choice we become friend”

— Millie Huang

“Nothing is by chance when freedom has a choice.”

— L.M. Fields

“Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?"
"Yes."
"You'd have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

“His insane gamble of granting Mollie breathing room with Colonel Lowe had finally paid off. Mollie had had the chance to know both men, and she had made her choice. She'd come back to him, and she wasn't leaving again.”

— Elizabeth Camden

“I feel like I'm waiting here. Waiting for something that hasn't happened yet. Something that isn't yet. But that's all I feel and nothing else. I don't know if I even exist. And then someone flips a switch and the light is gone, the room is gone, the weightlessness is gone. I want to ask to wait, because I wasn't finished yet, but I don't have a chance. There is no gentle pulling. No coaxing. No choice. I'm wrenched out. Yanked, as if my head is being snapped back. I'm in the dark and everything is pain. There are too many sensations at once. Every nerve ending is on fire. Like the shock of being born. And then, there are flashes of everything. Color, voices, machines, harsh words. The pain doesn't flash. The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.”

— Katja Millay

“Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone has the ability to be brave on a battlefield; when you are forced with the choice of: Be brave or ... be killed.
You may not realize it, but most of us have the chance to be heroes off the battlefield. When we take a stance and find our inner courage, instead of looking the other direction when we encounter evilness or oppression.”

— José N. Harris

“Getting an education is a running leap towards becoming filthy rich in Asia. This is no secret. But like many desirable things, simply being well known does not make it easily achieved. There are forks in the road to wealth that have nothing to do with choice or desire or effort, forks that have to do with chance, and in your case, the order of your birth is one of these. Third means you are not heading back to the village. Third means you are not working as a painter's assistant. Third also means you are not, like the fourth of you three surviving siblings, a tiny skeleton in a small grave at the base of a tree.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Sometimes," my grandfather put in, "even if you can't be what you want, making the most of what you can be isn't a bad second choice. You have a chance to remake yourself, baby girl.”

— Chloe Neill

“I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.”

— Berenice Marlohe

“Life is about choices and chances. You make a choice and take a chance.”

— Truth Devour

“However,
when given the chance, many people choose cocaine over love. I wouldn't say that's a
bad choice. The endorphins released during infatuation are similar to heroin. OxyContin,
"the cuddling hormone," most often found in new mothers and newlyweds, is like ecstasy;
every touch tingles. I think I read that somewhere. Love exists in powder. Love exists in
pills. We are all addicts.”

— Pete Wentz

“Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.”

— David Elkind

“In the forest, I thought I'd made the wrong choice. I thought she had the Tennyson poem because it was a Rising poem, and I'd missed my chance to be in the rebellion with her.”

— Ally Condie

“I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.”

— Philippe Petit

“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you ... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”

— Ann Brashares

“How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest-and perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura-and that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant.”

— Richard Flanagan

“Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.”

— Mitt Romney

“I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a job, what will ever change? This blackness inside will never go away. I don't make friends; I'll always be alone. If I go, at least there's hope of peace. Chance of a new and better life on the other side.”

— Julie Anne Peters

“Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.”

— Randall Park

“A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Choice and chance structure art and nature.”

— Frederick Sommer

“Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.”

— Hans Morgenthau

“Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.”

— Laura Harvey

“Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly-because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.”

— Doug Larson

“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“People don't cheat by chance, they cheat by choice.”

— Tony Gaskins

“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”

— Gerhard Richter

“Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.”

— Charles Bukowski