Cannot Choose Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now… — John Adams
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty… — John C. Maxwell
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow
The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain… — William S. Burroughs
One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage — Jet Li
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both — Paul Polman
If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy. — Pope Francis
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. — Luigi Pirandello
Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ.… — R C Sproul
It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places… — Henry David Thoreau
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore… — Benjamin Disraeli
Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today;… — Susan B. Anthony
We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you… — June Jordan
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart… — James Anthony Froude
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. — Helen Hayes

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