Choice Quotes - page 53

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few. (Albert Einstein)
The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not. View quote
Harlan F. Stone
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly became conscious of his beautiful hands. That must have been a moment. Like stout Cortez [sic] on a peak in Darien (I know it was Balboa) he saw before him a limitless expanse, a whole uncharted sea that might be subjected to his influence, free from the encumbrance of a baton. View quote
Oscar Levant
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. View quote
Leon Kass
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. View quote
Henry van Dyke
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. View quote
Mary Augusta Ward
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. View quote
Tony Blair
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. View quote
Tony Blair
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. (Tony Blair)
Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. View quote
Tony Blair
I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't. View quote
James Dobson
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders. View quote
James Dobson
The Conservative Party must make its choice. Every leader is leader only with the support of his party. That is true of me too. That is why I am no longer prepared to tolerate the present situation. In short, it is time to put up or shut up. View quote
John Major
We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken. View quote
Richard Nixon
Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values. View quote
Warren Farrell
Choosing safety is a choice of life over career. View quote
Warren Farrell
A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life. View quote
Warren Farrell
As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no” into a "maybe” into a "yes.” If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes” turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson. View quote
Warren Farrell
A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality. (Warren Farrell)
The worldview of the classical sciences conceptualized nature as a giant machine composed of intricate but replaceable machine-like parts. The new systems sciences look at nature as an organism endowed with irreplaceable elements and an innate but non-deterministic purpose for choice, for flow, for spontaneity. View quote
Ervin László
Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall - and then they had no choice but to follow them. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Eighteen years ago the advent of nuclear weapons changed the course of the world as well as the war. Since that time, all mankind has been struggling to escape from the darkening prospect of mass destruction on earth. In an age when both sides have come to possess enough nuclear power to destroy the human race several times over, the world of communism and the world of free choice have been caught up in a vicious circle of conflicting ideology and interest. Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension. View quote
John F. Kennedy
This right of free choice is no special privilege claimed by the Germans alone. It is an elemental requirement of human justice. View quote
John F. Kennedy