Choices Quotations | Page 2

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them.

One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

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.

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.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

If someone who is poor says, 'I may not have much money, but for me, what's really important is to have a good television so my family can enjoy and watch,' we should be a little careful and recognize that just like we all have individual liberty to make the choices we want, that we not judge too much on that.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

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.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

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.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

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.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: You can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.