Choices Quotes - Page 187

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I'm going with the Sisters.

This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.

His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you're spending all your time on.

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.