Choice Quotes - page 5

And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it. View quote
Chris Pine
I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice. View quote
Linda McCartney
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. View quote
Donald Pleasence
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. View quote
Abraham Flexner
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period. View quote
Christine Lahti
Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway. View quote
David Rakoff
So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia. View quote
Frank Carlucci
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. View quote
Hugh Mackay
If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice. View quote
Michael Zaslow
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. (Namie Amuro)
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. View quote
Richard V. Allen
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. View quote
Tina Weymouth
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. View quote
Vaughn Monroe
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. View quote
Zhang Yimou
Peace is a conscious choice. View quote
John Denver
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. View quote
Menander
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. (George Will)
Our old-fashioned system is better than any new-fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas. View quote
Jean Chrétien
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. View quote
George Eliot