John Irving Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

  John Irving

  Religious, Practice, Two

  John Irving (2012). “My Movie Business”, p.41, Random House

• We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

  John Irving

  Fall, Sky, People

  John Irving (2012). “The World According To Garp”, p.604, Random House

• What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Freedom Of Choice

  John Irving (2012). “The Cider House Rules”, p.606, Random House

• Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Want

• Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Needs

• Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

  John Irving

  Believe, Men, Winning

• I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

  John Irving

  Multiple Choice, Choices, Records

  "Novelist John Irving Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 14, 2012.

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