Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money. ~By Richard Harris ~
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. ~By Lord Robertson ~
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision. ~By Hillary Clinton ~
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. ~By Stockwell Day ~
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970. ~By Amartya Sen ~
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. ~By Jose Serrano ~
At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time. ~By Mike McCready ~
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. ~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. ~By Mike DeWine ~
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. ~By Andrew Shue ~
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~By William Jennings Bryan ~
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. ~By Tony Blair ~
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. ~By Neal Boortz ~
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. ~By Mary A. Ward ~
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues. ~By Peter Garrett ~
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything. ~By Jeremy Irons ~
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. ~By Tom G. Palmer ~
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain. ~By Ken Burns ~
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. ~By Garrett Hardin ~
We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less. ~By Eric Cantor ~
I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice. ~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
To me, success is choice and opportunity. ~By Harrison Ford ~
Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way. ~By Marsha Sinetar ~
People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth. ~By Ed Smith ~
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. ~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!! ~By Ruth Buzzi ~
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. ~By Jean Nidetch ~
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. ~By Bill Delahunt ~
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services. ~By John Hutton ~
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices. ~By Harrison Ford ~
I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time. ~By Eriq La Salle ~
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. ~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control. ~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice? ~By Rush Limbaugh ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. ~By Gloria Estefan ~
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. ~By Annie Leibovitz ~
When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made. ~By Alison Moyet ~
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ~By Stephen Covey ~
Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs. ~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
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. ~By Rob Glaser ~
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. ~By Tipper Gore ~
Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work. ~By Siobhan Davies ~
Every choice you make has an end result. ~By Zig Ziglar ~
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices. ~By Crystal Chappell ~
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ~By Daniel Ellsberg ~
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ~By Camille Paglia ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ~By Noam Chomsky ~
After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make. ~By Christian Slater ~
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. ~By Niklaus Wirth ~
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. ~By Randal Kleiser ~
It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. ~By Alva Noto ~
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare. ~By Theodore William Schultz ~
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. ~By Rita Dove ~
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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. ~By Corliss Lamont ~
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices. ~By Tyne Daly ~
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. ~By Benjamin Tucker ~
It was never really my choice to be an action heroine. ~By Izabella Scorupco ~
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. ~By William Glasser ~
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant. ~By Kathleen Parker ~
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. ~By Alberto Moravia ~
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ~By Richard Bach ~
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice. ~By Michael Aston ~
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. ~By John C. Maxwell ~
Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly. ~By Ellen Tauscher ~
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. ~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~By Buddy Hackett ~
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. ~By Namie Amuro ~
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. ~By William H. Gray ~
I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do. ~By Delta Burke ~
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. ~By Amy Tan ~
We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice. ~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit. ~By Terry Bradshaw ~
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. ~By Timothy Geithner ~
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ~By E. O. Wilson ~
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. ~By Michael Caine ~
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. ~By Robert Orben ~
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people. ~By Elena Kagan ~
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ~By Mortimer Adler ~
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also. ~By Mike Ditka ~
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers. ~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
The difficulty in life is the choice. ~By George A. Moore ~
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human. ~By Bruce Greenwood ~
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. ~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ~By Barbara Deming ~
We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope. ~By Rick Perry ~
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. ~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school! ~By Dave Attell ~
We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others. ~By Luke Scott ~
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. ~By Tony Blair ~
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. ~By Woody Allen ~
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~By Abraham Flexner ~
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. ~By Nina Simone ~
I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes. ~By Daniel Johns ~
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. ~By Donald Pleasence ~
There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center. ~By Alan Autry ~
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you. ~By Neve Campbell ~
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