Quotes About Choices

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?

Most people that always have something against hunting are the same ones that go out to a restaurant to eat a steak or order a burger.

I'm not saying stealing a girl is okay at any cost, but the message I'm sending out is that if you love someone, you ought to be able to tell her that you do and she has the right to know what her options are.

I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.

Steer clear of anything fried.

I do believe that being in public office is all about making choices. And if I'm president, I would steer this nation in a direction where we embrace progressive values.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

I didn't take the Porto job nor the Chelsea job because Jose made the same steps.

Everything happens for a reason. Like when Im asked if I regret not taking the next steps as a rugby player. Well, If I had I likely wouldn't have done what I have in darts.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of its own choices.

Existence precedes essence. What you are (your essence) is the result of your choices (your existence) rather than the reverse. Essence is not destiny. You are what you make yourself to be.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Living a principled life was as much about what you didn't do as what you did. That what you rejected defined you as much as what you embraced. The whole beauty of being broken up with someone was that you didn't have to reply.

Change also comes when we learn to do something different, to make choices in our thinking and daily routines that interrupt a downward spiral and create an upward one.

You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you'd made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I'd vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn't have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only...?"

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our own hands.

How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only…?