Cannot Choose Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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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
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
— Jet Li
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We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both
— Paul Polman
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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
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One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
— Luigi Pirandello
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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