Every day brings new choices.
~By Martha Beck ~
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
~By Edward Sapir ~
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
~By Elizabeth Berkley ~
In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
~By Kay Granger ~
I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
~By Andy Garcia ~
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
~By Amber Frey ~
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
~By Melissa Bean ~
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
~By Joan Didion ~
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
~By Stella Adler ~
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
~By James Allen ~
If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
~By Michael Porter ~
Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
~By Andy Garcia ~
This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
~By Leelee Sobieski ~
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.
~By Jane Rule ~
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.
~By Johnny Depp ~
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
~By January Jones ~
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
~By Alec Baldwin ~
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
~By Judd Gregg ~
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 ~
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~By Buddy Hackett ~
To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
~By Geena Davis ~
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
~By David Lee Roth ~
We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.
~By John Denver ~
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.
~By Peter Sarsgaard ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.
~By Robert Fritz ~
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
~By Solomon Burke ~
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
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. ~
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 ~
The talent is in the choices.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.
~By Frederick C. Frieseke ~
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 ~
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
~By Pat Riley ~
I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.
~By Lusia Strus ~
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
~By Rose McGowan ~
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
~By Basil Hume ~
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
~By Andrew Niccol ~
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 ~
So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.
~By Fred Thompson ~
You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.
~By Lori Loughlin ~
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
~By Chris Christie ~
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
~By J. G. Holland ~
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 ~
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.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
~By Bea Arthur ~
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~By Randall Terry ~
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 ~
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
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.
~By Star Jones ~
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
~By John Corigliano ~
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
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.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
~By Joe Biden ~
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
~By Famke Janssen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
~By Amy Grant ~
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
~By William Glasser ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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 ~
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
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 ~
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
~By Joe Morton ~
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
~By Josh Lucas ~
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
~By John Updike ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 compromise.
~By Robert Fritz ~
We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
~By David Suzuki ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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