Quotes About Choice

Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.

If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

I'd rather go by bus.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.

I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.

I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.

I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

In life, you can't control what other people are going to do; you can't control how they're going to behave. All you can control is how you're going to react.

I chose not to react to everyone's opinion.

People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.

Parents have a very natural reaction if their kid makes such a choice because it takes a lot of hard work, both on the kid's part as well as on the part of the parents.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.