Choosing Quotes - page 5

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing. (Graham Greene)
Choosing a path means having to miss out on others. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. View quote
Paulo Coelho
They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman. View quote
Edward Heath
In choosing people for specific jobs previous experience should not be a guide. I never put a man in the job which he thought he knew. Often the 'experts' make the worst possible Ministers in their own fields. In this country we prefer rule by amateurs. View quote
Clement Attlee
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. View quote
Ayn Rand
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A scientist can be tactful and PC with his mouth, but not his ears or eyes and certainly not his mind. Truth must reign there above all. For your first allegiance is either to Truth or to Ignorance. Worry about offending, and you are choosing Ignorance. View quote
Patri Friedman
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life. View quote
Jacob M. Appel
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. (Stephen L. Carter)
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
Merz paintings are abstract works of art. The word 'Merz' essentially means the totality of all imaginable materials that can be used for artistic purposes and technically the principle that all of these individual materials have equal value. Merz art makes use not just of paint and canvas, brush and palette, but all the materials visible to the eye and all tools needed.... the wheel off a pram, wire mesh, string and cotton balls – these are factors of equal value to paints. The artist creates by choosing, distributing and reshaping the materials. View quote
Kurt Schwitters
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering – the father saying something, the mother choosing to defend herself. To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread – sometimes it was still warm – I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection. View quote
Mark Crispin Miller
I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously. View quote
Colin Firth
I came and knelt at the king's feet, and when he put the crown on my head, I felt that he had just honoured all the women of Iran. Only four years earlier we had been in the same category of the mentally handicapped: we did not even have the basic right of choosing our representatives. The crown wiped out centuries of humiliation; more surely than any law, it solemnly affirmed the equality of men and women. View quote
Farah Pahlavi
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. View quote
Origen
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I have long recognized the theory and aesthetic of such comprehensive display: show everything and incite wonder by sheer variety. But I had never realized how powerfully the decor of a cabinet museum can promote this goal until I saw the Dublin [Natural History Museum] fixtures redone right. [...] The exuberance is all of one piece-organic and architectural. I write this essay to offer my warmest congratulations to the Dublin Museum for choosing preservation-a decision not only scientifically right, but also ethically sound and decidedly courageous. The avant-garde is not an exclusive locus of courage; a principled stand within a reconstituted rear unit may call down just as much ridicule and demand equal fortitude. Crowds do not always rush off in admirable or defendable directions. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind. View quote
Norman Mailer
I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial. View quote
Anne Bancroft
In the really hard cases you're choosing between the disastrous and the catastrophic, and it's hard to tell someone which one is which. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Choosing only the things you like isn't irresponsible. If you can't find anything you like then why take the responsibility? I take only the possibilities that I'm ready to accept. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki