Choice Quotes - page 61

The responsible choice? Steer clear of business with Iran. (Mike Pompeo)
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. View quote
Michael Fox
I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up. View quote
Teri Hatcher
The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. View quote
Cory Booker
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. View quote
Cory Booker
I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots. View quote
Vidya Balan
Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have. View quote
Thomas Leonard
We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. ... If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man's status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived. (Pelagius)
You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. So there I was. View quote
Donna Karan
Two societies confronting each other with conflicting universes will both develop conceptual machineries designed to maintain their respective universes. From the point of view of intrinsic plausibility the two forms of conceptualization may seem to the outside observer to offer little choice. View quote
Peter L. Berger
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them. View quote
Karl Abraham
My marriage, my relationships and family, my accomplishments with my band and my choice to be vegetarian are not only things I am proud of, they define me. View quote
Chris Adler
I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera. View quote
Kathy Ireland
Golovinski: What is the meaning of this? Why am I arrested? Secret police chief: Mathieu Golovinski, you are accused of provocation and being an informer! Golovinski:I am loyal to the tsar.... who dares accuse me? Who? Secret police chief: We have reliable sources. You are sentenced to exilein the country of your choice! Golovinski: I will go to France. View quote
Will Eisner
Neglect of the problem of the human individual leads to impoverishing Marxism at the theoretical level and to distorting it at the practical level. In this mistake lies the deep secret of Stalinism. This is why the protagonists of "true” Marxism - where the individual is absent-are so dangerous. I am referring not only to those who put Stalinism into practice, but also to its theorists, whose various political lucubrations and theoretical mistakes have resulted in the thesis that Marxism is anti-humanism. If this were the case, we would have to fight it. But it is a pure lie: Marxism is humanism, and it is the concern of Marxists to fight in the name of such humanism. This has always been my firm belief, as a Marxist and as a Communist. And this fact explains the choice of the lietmotif of my philosophical works. View quote
Adam Schaff
What we did was unprecedented, but what is less well understood is that we had no choice. View quote
Paul Allen
There are still people who discuss industrialization as... an alternative to agricultural improvement... this approach is without meaning in the West Indian Islands. There is no choice... between industry and agriculture. The islands need as large agriculture as possible... It is not ... that agriculture cannot continue to develop if industry is developed ... the opposite is true: agriculture cannot... yield a reasonable standard of living unless new jobs are created off the land. View quote
W. Arthur Lewis
I don't know if race made it more difficult, but definitely it made me stronger, knowing that I [had] no excuse [for] making mistakes or being kind of so-so, because maybe I [wouldn't] be accepted as a white person [would've been]. But if [I was] better, they had no choice but to accept it and say, ‘She did so well. (Surya Bonaly)
The so-called bourgeoisie doesn't provide any substance for my art. The character [of the models] there is too faint and without any spirit. It doesn't represent a race in an artistic sense. So there is no other choice for me [than folk women]. View quote
George Hendrik Breitner
It is not possible to make such things [paintings of street-views] without the help of photos. How do you want me to make an Amsterdam street. I make thumbnail sketches in my sketchbook. if it's possible I make a study from a window. and a sketch for the details after my choice. The composition is mine anyhow. View quote
George Hendrik Breitner
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. View quote
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
A version of the old fable about the king's nakedness may be helpful here. Public choice is like the small boy who said that the king really has no clothes. Once he said this, everyone recognized that the king's nakedness had been recognized, but that no-one had really called attention to this fact. View quote
James M. Buchanan