“We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.”

“and if we can change
things that have
already happened

if those planes can fly in
uneasy formation

if that splinter moon
can blow away the shadows

then anything,
anything at all.”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.”

Kristin Cast book Untamed

“We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

“You gotta remember that in war, you’re not deciding between the bad thing to and the good thing. You’re choosing between the bad and the worse. And you can’t control the shit that happens after you choose.”

Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist

“If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen”

Amy Lee (1981) American singer-songwriter and pianist