Choices Quotes by Neale Donald Walsch, Brent Weeks, Tom Upton, Gary Haugen, Doris Roberts, Nancy Farmer and many others.
We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real.
Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.
I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.
And here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe this is the choice of our age: Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly, our heavenly Father wants us to know that we simply can’t be both.
Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.
I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.
Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
The choice couldn’t be more clear. Americans can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C., or we can choose a leader who will fight every day to make America great again.
Choice is the engine of our evolution … if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously
Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
To work for libertarianism – to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual – used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.
There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.
My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie’s Choice. A daring tour de force.
Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.
As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
That’s how I’ve made a living for years: doing illustrations for comics and magazines. And I’m still doing it. Though I’m really trying to make efforts to have other career choices, because it’s just so unstable.
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists – and in a single choice: to live.
I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family – especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world.
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create… facts, essays, poems – do you want to speak or to sing?
Make your choice and accept the consequences.
Maybe I had a ‘secret identity,’ but then when you think about it, don’t we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as ‘me.’ The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.
If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
I think also what’s interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what’s going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me – like, she can’t wait to see become a father.
Our choices determine our destiny
Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
Love takes your choices away.
Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
Strong faith is not an emotion. It’s a choice.
In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won’t, and the practices they support and the ones they don’t. They will continue to be able to do so.
What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators… they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren’t?
There are some choices you can only make once. You can’t go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
I’d like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don’t have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they’re so well suited to the parts.
What goes on in a person’s head, what impels them to a political choice, it’s a pretty complicated question.
The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: ‘If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.’
Everybody’s got regrets. It’s a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.
Where you quietly know within, you have no choice.
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that – you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
In every moment we make a decision — whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.
The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.
We can’t have a freedom struggle without free choice.
Google is in a position where it doesn’t even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to ‘be,’ and everyone will end up there sooner or later.
We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices – but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?
You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.
We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day
the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.
I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.
When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
We make choices and are in turn made by them.
Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist – what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use – in that artist’s attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.
Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.
No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
The choices of one shape the futures of all.
I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they’re not going to the farmers’ market. Those people need choices too.
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
I’ve made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.
My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans – before we can speak or we can understand a baby’s cognition – they’re already showing us signs that they want choice.
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
If there was a choice on spending a lot of money on accessories or dress, I always chose accessories. I think jewelry can change an outfit more than anything else.
Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose– What is gone is gone.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you’re playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
Of course philosophy is not able to impose its own choices on politics, let alone on the economy. Nonetheless, it can help to identify the role of Europe in the global world and the principles that should inform its conduct.
Habits are products of our choice; we are what we make of ourselves.
Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting. I learned so much with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. They encouraged us to make creative choices with our characters.
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
We don’t have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don’t have any choice.
Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-
I can be as contrary as I choose.
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.
You can’t change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.
The biggest lie in choosing is, “I can’t.” That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don’t do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing – and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
Now’s the time to take a chance, come on we’ve gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.
I’ve been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what’s written and produced in the Arab world and I don’t much like it.
In his essay, вЂPerpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
I don’t think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the position they’re in or why they make certain choices, then you can get behind them.
Happiness is a decision.
Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”
– Seneca
“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.
– Seneca
“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.
Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way – and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.
I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.
For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
Hillary Clinton and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You’ve got to pick your choice.
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn’t yours
I’ve just been lucky. I’d like to have more choices, and I’d like to have a leading part.
I eventually realized that good things wouldnt happen to me if I didnt make the right choices.
I have a right to voice my opinion, but you know – when you can’t really make choices, it really don’t matter.
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won’t make that choice
Each day you’re presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.
I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It’s just that simple. It’s not even a choice. It’s a calling.
I like to think I’m a night person, because that’s my job, but now I’m a father of three. I’m trying to become more of a morning person. I don’t know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I’m bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.
Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.
The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn’t place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.
History is merciless. History doesn’t care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It’s up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that’s pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.
For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) ‘Me and a Gun’ on the record not to stay a victim anymore.
When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there’s what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. ‘Did you see Jay Leno last night?’
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.
There’s practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others’ choices. But in our century we’re forced to think about a pluralistic world.
Act always so as to increase the number of choices
You can get bogged down in a recipe that’s got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you’ve just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn’t mean less flavor.
My advice is to make acting your second career choice
It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
Whether we’re on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.
The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90’s is final.
When it comes to dieting, I’m the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don’t like to count points, etc. I don’t want to have a lot of choices.
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
He that finds out he’s changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man’s shoe be made on his own last.
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.
I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.
I believe trust is a choice.
What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there – as long as you’re willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There’s just you, this moment, and a choice.
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.
I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.
However small a company, its founders should try to expand people’s opportunities and choices.
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.
I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.
We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough
If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don’t love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn’t between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
I was a design ethicist at Google, where I studied how do you ethically steer people’s thoughts? Because what we don’t talk about is how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today.
I was always sure the Bundesliga was the right choice for me. My first season was solid, if unspectacular, so maybe I would have preferred it not to be so hard at the beginning, but I’ve worked very hard to get to this point and want to get even better now.
Love shouldn’t make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.
Reason is also choice.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don’t believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.
If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don’t like about England but its just details, I don’t really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.
You know, I’ve always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I’ve made decisions that maybe other people haven’t understood; why I passed on something, for instance.
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don’t think they have any choice.
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that’s okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don’t want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don’t have a “no junk food” rule – I just want them to think about their choices.
There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But… this is what God wants of you.
No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.
To every man there openeth a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth a high way and a low, and every man decideth the way his soul shall go.
Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
In the reality – TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.
People always ask, ‘Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?’ But they haven’t fired me from ‘OLTL’ yet. When that happens, I’ll make that choice.
I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was “good for my career,” whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.
Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body – you thoughts, your actions, your food – the thing you feed your life.
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That’s good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.
‘Promiscuous’ implies that I’m not choosy. In fact I’m very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.
The mere existence of ‘Buffy’ proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different – to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.
I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.
Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the “pattern” in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.
It’s not because I love you, but because I only love you. If I don’t have you, then I won’t have any other choices.
Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
This Budget reflects a choice – not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.
That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It’s just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It’s about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they’re making that choice, they’re not being exploited.
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It’s not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.
Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you’ve made some choices, and maybe they weren’t the right choices, and that it’s all coming to an end.
John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.
IВ frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have freeВ choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I mightВ strive for salvation.
If everyting’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” (Jonas) “It’s the choosing that’s imortant, isn’t it?” The Giver asked him.
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
It’s a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.
Life choices and projects and photo shoots, I can’t base them on anybody else but myself. I’ve done things where I’m like, “Do I want my dad to see this? I don’t know!” But the best lesson I can teach my sisters, or any younger women, is “Do what YOU do. Don’t follow me, follow you.”
Most of all I don’t want to be bored. That’s why I’d rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.
Love is not an option. It’s the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.
Life is a choice… it’s a choice to be successful.
Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice.
Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
I really do think that if you’re doing your job right, you’re never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real…and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
This wasn’t a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.
If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.
Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it’s not a choice.
Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice.
Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.
I think you have to include your legacy in everything that you do because it makes you proceed with a little more mindfulness when it comes to decision-making, and the lives that you will affect by your choices.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.
I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don’t take it you’re going to die.
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.
You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
I think we all make our own families, whether they’re comprised of blood relations or friends. Some people are lucky and love their families. Others aren’t. But whom we spend time with is always a choice. Including our pets.
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we’re downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women’s choices.
The propensity to do good things is a choice.
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people’s prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more balanced and responsible public dialogue.
In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.
We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It’s people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life – the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.
O my choice beauty You’ve gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you
For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of
his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best
his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It’s not like I want to blow my brains out while I’m playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed – note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I’m still amazed at times.
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
Before it’s too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive ‘yes’ to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.
No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.
Katy Perry still gets me every time. She’s very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!
It’s absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.
Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
Walking the walk doesn’t begin with a step. It begins with a choice. You can turn fear into action and let doubt become confidence. Find your pride and let it fuel your courage. Turn tomorrow into today and turn today into RIGHT NOW!
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.
Perfect is not on the menu. Nobody is going to be your ideal candidate. You can’t dream somebody up out of nothing that’s going to be the perfect candidate, so you do have to pick between a series of bad choices.
The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.
When I make a film I’m away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There’s no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.
You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesnt work like that.
The struggle is to stay present enough when you’re taking your next step forward that you’re really making your most honest choices.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.
I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.
If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
My nutrition choices are for my health, not to lose weight.
Golf isn’t a game, it’s a choice that one makes with one’s life.
Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.
When life puts you through a tumbler, it’s your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.
Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.
For the first time in my life I’ve done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make.
Looking back, I’m really happy with the choices I’ve made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don’t know. But just about every single thing I’ve ever done I’ve gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.
May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.
I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.
I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
You can’t have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.
When you’re working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.
Don’t wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.
No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they’re commodities – we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.
I’ve found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.
I don’t believe in fate. I don’t believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you ‘Don’t worry. This may be your life but you’re not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you — it’s already organised.’ It’s all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.
Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It’s called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don’t do it halfway. Don’t linger in whiner’s limbo.
The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They’re not often fun or easy, but they’re the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine… look into that second, less painful career.
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn’t finished having children yet.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you’ve got to go for speed.
If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we’re going to get the basket either way, I’m going to do the show.
We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can’t win.
The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.
Love is a choice, love is an act of will, you can choose to love.
My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment – by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.
I’m not particularly a career-oriented guy. I’m lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I’d like to have the choice of the better roles.
It’s cool to see a woman be like, ‘This is what I want – this is what I don’t want.’ It’s good to see someone making choices for themselves.
We don’t get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
Simply stated, testimony-real testimony, born of the Spirit and confirmed by the Holy Ghost-changes lives. It changes how you think and what you do. It changes what you say. It affects every priority you set and every choice you make.
Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
So, take what’s inside you and make big, bold choices and for those who can’t speak for themselves, use bold voices and make friends and love well, bring art to this place and make the world better for the whole human race.
One learns better than to hand one’s choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.
There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . ‘Ain’t it awful?’ . . . or . . . ‘Good information!’ Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.
If you’re informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore.
Take your choice!
Take your choice!
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children’s schooling and education decisions.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.
You’ve got to be willing to forgive and say, ‘God, get something good out of something bad.’ And if you’ll make that choice… God will do it.
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices – to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it’s just like an aspirin: it doesn’t deal with the problem.
Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.
That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.
I’ve done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn’t been the best career choice, but it’s been a really great life choice.
Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.
In the midst of the flurry – clarity.
In the midst of the storm – calm.
In the midst of divided interests – certainty.
In the many roads – a certain choice.
In the midst of the storm – calm.
In the midst of divided interests – certainty.
In the many roads – a certain choice.
The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given – to love unconditionally?
As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
Through reading the scriptures I realized there was a purpose for my life, that I was created for a reason, that I was significant, that it was my choices that got me to where I was at and that it would be my choices that would get me to where I wanted to be as well.
I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. – it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it ‘s disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.
A small behavioral change can also lead to embracing a wider checklist of healthier choices.
With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don’t. There’s something really unforgiving about that.
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
When what is is congruent to what is supposed, the reaction is functional and the mental processes competent. When what is and what is supposed have nothing to do with each other, the choice of reactions is random. Something tears.
If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.
Being a musician is a given for me-I didn’t have much choice in the matter.
Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our own song choices. At the end of the day, it’s still a vocal competition show and you want to sing the song that showcases your voice the best.
Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, ‘Oh, I can’t believe it’s so cold,’ or you can say, ‘Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.’ No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?
It’s not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.
In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I’ve seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it’s coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
It is your choices that make you uniquely you.
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.
If you’re miserable, make a choice.
If you’re still miserable, you can choose again.
If you’re still miserable, you can choose again.
In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.
The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.
I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it’s easy to take hard choices when you know what the ambitions are and what values you stand for, so it’s all about staying true to yourself, be yourself.
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.
I made the wrong choice ,” I whispered. My mother shook her head. “A child should never have to choose.
Honor isn’t about making the right choices. It’s about dealing with the consequences.
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
Guy Lafleur said “Each of us has only one past but there are many futures”.
Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.
It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.
It’s great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.
The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you’ll have to live with all the choices that you make.
Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.
It’s about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It’s about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It’s about you.
It really is a choice between division or unity, between an economy that works for everyone or one that is stacked for those at the top, between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon.
It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking… and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs… This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.
I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.
I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.
Rather than being confined to a separate dimension, martial arts should be an extension of our way of living, of our philosophies, of the way we educate our children, of the job we devote so much of our time to, of the relationships we cultivate, and of the choices we make every day.
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.
The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine – or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?
Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution.
I’m a Christian by choice.
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice – a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation’s liberties.
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices–and then there’s the one you pick, commit to, and make great–is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.
Some people get into this business and they’re so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I’m going down swinging.
The choices that we make aren’t always perfect but it’s ok… It’s part of the journey.
The pleasure is our choice.
In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most–for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don’t want something else more.
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.
… on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.
We don’t usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people – these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.
The choices we make define our future.
The most important thing about a child’s education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God’s sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.
I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.
Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.
A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have that voice; we just have to make a choice to listen to it. We all have it; that’s God’s given light. It’s just whether you have the courage to step into your destiny.
Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.
Marketers know – no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty – when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.
Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone’s kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it’s that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis – how incentives influence behavior – to government.
If I pretend to myself that I’m different from the way I truly am, I’m going to make choices that won’t make me happy.
Milos said, You’re my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn’t pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I’m busy painting my kitchen.
If you take a single word…and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it’s choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.
Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie ‘Arachnophobia’ which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
I never really called myself pro-choice.
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’ So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices
When I do things I shouldn’t do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses — that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.
No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.
The hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.
I’m pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
Sometimes the simplest tasks are so incredibly challenging but everyday I try and I make choices to push myself further than I could ever imagine.
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.
The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them – no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
We checked carefully the international law – what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.
I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.
Whether your sport of choice is running, cycling, kite surfing, etc. start moving and stay moving! It will give you energy and help you stay young.
There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.
She said, ‘You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.’
Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.
When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.
I take the choice out of exercise. It’s not an option.
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
I’m against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman’s choice.
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between “life” and “death”; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.
and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.
Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
I’d like to promote lots of things. I’d like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I’d like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They’re both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.
Luck is opportunity met by preparation – and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.
Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I’m not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.
The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.
I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn’t talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It’s a completely personal choice.
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
But for me, to get the tattoo was part of moving into adulthood. Making a choice that is permanent and that I’ll have to stick with.
We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It’s about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it’s also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation’s limited resources to defending America.
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.
Audiences believe what you believe. It’s a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you’ve got no choice. None at all.
You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious
Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation – not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn’t support that team, it’s their job to ruin you, to tell you you’re an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.
Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.
The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn’t until my 30s that I began a profession in music.
God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person’s innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.
Our enemies send other people’s children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice – made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.
We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children’s tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.
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.
I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.
The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that’s the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
We have a responsibility to first understand how climate change impacts all peoples of the world. Then, we must consider the individual and collective choices and actions that can move us toward a sustainable future.
I want to help you “fly right” in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. –Doroga
I think everybody should take the attitude that we’re working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.
We have a lot of things to work through. But the American people need to have confidence that we`re going to change things, but we`re going to move us in to a direction of more decisions and more choices, and not a diminishing of responsibility and care that people are really relied upon.
Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.
I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count.
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
We need to be ambivalent – in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence – having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation – is a widened embrace. It’s about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.
We’re seeing China push very hard in its immediate neighborhood, particularly in the maritime zone surrounding China, to kind of create a security zone for itself, trying to lock in the territorial and maritime gains that it can now, before a period of much more difficult choices arises some time in the 2020s.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were ‘bad’ or ‘worse.’ As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best ‘shot’ – preferably without getting shot.
If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.
Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.
I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom’s choice.
Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.
My friend taught me this one. You take the heel of your hand, you can shove someone’s nose right through their brain. I can’t even watch someone blow their nose. If I’m in a fight, I’m not gonna be shoving or poking, I’m gonna be running or begging – that’s my two choices, right there.
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.
We’re constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.
This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don’t ignore a solution just because it’s simple!
There’s small choice in rotten apples.
John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.
While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.
Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there’s just extraordinary beauty.
Well folks, what do you think? Here’s our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?
The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
Style is having the courage of one’s choices and the courage to say no. It’s good taste and culture.
The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, yours. Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave.
Choosing one’s leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices – either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.
Be fearless in your choices and don’t be afraid to be yourself!
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi’s] poetry to act from the Divine Center of Silence and allow the glory of the Presence to soak our every movement.
I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they’re saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
I’m always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don’t have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I’m making my own choices.
Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.В Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
We don’t have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I’ve had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent… How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?
The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.
The devil hath not, in all his quiver’s choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.
My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women’s ‘choices’ of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don’t account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.
I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains
Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we’re all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we’re perfect. Frankly, I’m not perfect.
The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.
I’m pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.
Every television show you go on is a choice.
One is a choice, and one is not.
If we don’t forgive ourselves for mistakes we’ve made-and everybody’s made their choices, some worse than others-we’ll never experience the good life God has in store.
I hope that people will see that we don’t have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
The places I’ve travelled and cultures I’ve experienced have been reflected in my home decor choices.
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom’d to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.
Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.
In times of adversity – for the country we love – Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.
She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.
I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don’t allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you’re presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
