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Quotes About Choice

When people wear dresses, I want to wear pants and vice versa.
~ Carly Chaikin
As a child, I felt that the Indian part of me was unacknowledged, and therefore somehow negated, by my American environment and vice versa. Growing up, I was impatient with my parents for being so different, holding on to India the way they did, and always making me feel like I had to make a choice of which way I would go.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Roles should choose an actor and not vice versa.
~ Vijay Sethupathi
You totally can have it all if you want it all. And there's nothing wrong with wanting it all. But also, there's nothing wrong with not having it all if you want a career rather than kids, or vice versa.
~ Frankie Bridge
'Stop playing the victim.' - unless you've been cast in a community theater production of 'Law & Order: SVU,' I'm not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.
~ Chesa Boudin
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
In the law, you have people whose lives have changed because some dirtbag decided to do something to them. We should call it the criminal injustice system. The victim didn't choose to be a victim.
~ Jeanine Pirro
You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.
~ Emily V. Gordon
But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn't result in a pregnancy. Because I can't imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker.
~ Gretchen Whitmer
Every person has a choice in every situation and I decided not to be a victim of crime and to not allow myself to be crippled with fear. This is why I started Unbreakable. I wanted to teach women the self-defence skills I learnt during a course I participated in.
~ Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
~ Alvin Toffler
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
~ Pat Brown
The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
~ Ziggy Marley
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
~ Amy Lee
I'm not a huge '2K' person. I've always have rather played sports than play that video game that's a sport.
~ Gordon Hayward
I'm a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that's good about video games is they can direct their own experience.
~ Todd Howard
I think it's people's choice, right? If you watch movie, you watch movie. If you play video games, you play video games. I play games on my phone as well.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
When you're young, you know, you want to do all the things other kids are doing. Play video games. Sit in the house and eat potato chips. Just play or whatever.
~ Lorenzen Wright
I'm really picky about stuff like videos or even pictures of the band, but at the same time, I don't really know what it is I want; I just know what I don't want.
~ Adam Granduciel
I still make videos in my bedroom by choice because that's the feel of my comedy, but the opportunity to make longer format content with a production company, with a team that's a bit more elevated in that sense, is really exciting for me because it's not that it's better than what I've already been doing, but it's different.
~ Lilly Singh
In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction.
~ Golshifteh Farahani
Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.
~ Richard N. Haass