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 ~
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
~By Tim Allen ~
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
~By Charles Kennedy ~
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've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
~By Danny Glover ~
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
~By Carl Levin ~
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
~By Basil Hume ~
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
~By David Copperfield ~
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
~By Joy Page ~
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
~By Andy Garcia ~
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
~By Alec Baldwin ~
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
~By Alan Autry ~
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.
~By Peter Singer ~
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
~By John Shadegg ~
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
~By Joe Biden ~
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
~By J. G. Holland ~
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.
~By Michael Mann ~
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
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.
~By Peter Gabriel ~
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.
~By Shane Warne ~
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
The talent is in the choices.
~By Robert De Niro ~
I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
~By Buzz Aldrin ~
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
~By Matt Damon ~
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
~By Donald Berwick ~
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'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
~By Sharron Angle ~
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 ~
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
~By Richard Bach ~
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.
~By Matt Damon ~
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 ~
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
~By Neve Campbell ~
It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
~By John Mica ~
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
~By Byron White ~
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 ~
The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.
~By Mark Goddard ~
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~By Buddy Hackett ~
I think that certainly my choices empower me.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
~By Heath Ledger ~
If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.
~By Michael Schenker ~
I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
~By Winona Ryder ~
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
~By Jean Rostand ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~By Denis Waitley ~
People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit.
~By Chester Brown ~
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
~By Geena Davis ~
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
~By Michael Porter ~
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
~By Pat Riley ~
I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
~By Chuck D. ~
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Every day brings new choices.
~By Martha Beck ~
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
~By Penelope Lively ~
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
~By John Engler ~
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.
~By Bob Riley ~
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
~By Elvis Costello ~
I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
~By Huey Lewis ~
Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.
~By Frederick C. Frieseke ~
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 ~
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
~By Casey Affleck ~
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
~By Tom Cruise ~
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.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
~By Bill Mumy ~
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
~By Anthony Comstock ~
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 ~
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
~By Michael Crapo ~
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
~By Ron Paul ~
It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.
~By Craig Armstrong ~
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.
~By John Sununu ~
I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
~By Megan Fox ~
Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
|