Quotes About Choice

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.

This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We've always done that well as a country. We haven't had to choose.

If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in search of a better life.

When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

My theory is that if you have pizza one night, you can just make a better choice the the next day.

Pizza and burgers are really different. It depends on my mood. Right now, I could go for both. I don't want to pick one. I don't think it would be fair to the burger or to the pizza.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.