Quotes About Choice

My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

I wouldn't like to get trapped in a long series.

I know that some of the characters I played were trash. But then, I chose to take up those roles, as I enjoyed doing them.

Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

Abortion is a severely traumatic and potentially dangerous procedure.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

When you choose to take the road less traveled, it can sometimes be a bumpy ride along the way, but if you're doing it for the right reasons, then the reward is so great.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

I think within what my job is, you always have to find a balance, because this job is also a life choice. You're traveling about; your hours are all over the place. If you're in a show, you're out every night.

If it is the choice between a bullet train and a three-wheeler, I will choose the latter as it is the traveling mode of the poor people.

Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.