Choices Quotes - Page 149

Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds, if I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

Sometimes when I'm on the internet, I'll get this, like, which of these ad experiences would you prefer? And I'll have a choice of, like, a car, a pharmaceutical item or, you know, clothing. And I'm thinking, like, I don't want any of these. Do I have to choose?

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.

For most of his life, Donald Trump has described himself as very pro- choice and as a supporter of partial birth abortion. Right now today as a candidate, he supports federal tax payer funding for Planned Parenthood. I disagree with him on that.

The principles Donald Trump is focused on are exactly the right principles: more choice, more competition, lower costs, lower premiums.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.