Quotes About Choice

Not everything people do is good - people make Coca Cola and some people want it and some people don't, but we don't outlaw it.

It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an opportunity to come from it, then I feel like that's a choice.

My outlook is that when you're under pressure then that is when you play your best cricket. You've got no choice but to perform to keep your place and I find that brings out the best in me.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.

Any time you pick third overall, there's a number of players and a number of ways we can go.

Sometimes I wake up, and I wear jeans; sometimes I want to wear khakis or full-on overalls.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Abortion, more than not, leaves women with an aftermath of grief, guilt, and emotional overload. In a lot of cases, this can last a lifetime.

Overseas and going straight to the NBA wasn't even an option.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

He was tired of having only three channels.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.

It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .

In 313, issuing a proclamation that for the first time gave a legal standing to Christianity, he coyly refused to name 'the divinity who sits in heaven'.54 The vagueness was deliberate. Christ or Apollo, Constantine wished to leave the choice of whom his subjects identified as 'the supreme divinity'55 to them. Where there were divisions, he aimed to blur.

Everything in modern society is the result of a collection of decisions made by someone. Why shouldn't that someone be you?

Men protesteert niet tegen een zelfgekozen lot.

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.