Choices famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
-- A. A. Gill -
All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
-- A. R. Rahman -
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
-- A.J. Ayer -
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
-- Aaron Tveit -
I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts
-- Abbi Glines -
Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.
-- Abbi Glines -
Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.
-- Abbie Cornish -
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.
-- Abby Johnson -
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
-- Abdallah II -
You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,
-- Abdullah Ocalan -
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
-- Abel Bonnard -
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
-- Abraham Cowley -
We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
-- Adam Grant -
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
-- Adam Lambert -
You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-- Aeschylus -
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
-- Agnes Repplier -
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
-- Ai Weiwei -
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
-- Aimee Garcia -
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
-- Ajay Naidu -
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
-- Al Goldstein -
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.
-- Al Gore -
I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?
-- Al Gore -
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
-- Al Gore -
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
-- Alain de Botton -
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
-- Alain de Botton -
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
-- Alain de Botton -
If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.
-- Alain Juppe -
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
-- Alan Autry -
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.
-- Alan Autry -
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
-- Alan Blinder -
That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
-- Alan Bold -
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.
-- Alan Cohen -
An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.
-- Alan Cohen -
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
-- Alan Cohen -
I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
-- Alan Cumming -
I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It's a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind.
-- Alan Grant -
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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.
-- Alan Keyes -
If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.
-- Alan Moore -
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.
-- Alan Turing -
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.
-- Alan Watts -
Your choice of armor was your intellect.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational...
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
-- Albert Camus -
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
-- Albert Camus -
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
-- Albert Camus -
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
-- Albert Einstein -
Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.
-- Albert Einstein -
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
-- Albert Ellis -
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.
-- Alberto Moravia -
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.
-- Aldous Huxley -
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.
-- Alesha Dixon -
I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?
-- Alex Tabarrok -
A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
-- Alexander Pope -
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
-- Alexander Pope -
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
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.
-- Alexandra Kerry -
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
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.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change
-- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr. -
My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
-- Alfredo Kraus -
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
-- Algernon Sidney -
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
-- Ali Abdullah Saleh -
Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.
-- Ali Suliman -
If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'
-- Alice Cooper -
I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.
-- Alice Englert -
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
-- Alice Waters -
My life has become about trying to find effective ways to be as responsible with the choices I make - in food, clothing and everything else. I don't want to be responsible for the harm of any creature, person or animal.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
...you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day
-- Alicia Silverstone -
There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice,
-- Alison Croggon -
Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.
-- Alison Croggon -
There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
-- Alison Lurie -
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
-- Allan Frewin Jones -
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
-- Allan Kardec -
Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.
-- Allen West -
Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
-- Ally Condie -
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
-- Ally Condie
