Choices Quotes - Page 53

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

In a world of infinite choice if something is not made specifically for me I'm gone.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.

When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

Leading a healthy, active lifestyle is all about momentum. If I'm in the middle of training it's easy for me to keep that up. It gets tough when I'm on a break. I just try to start my day with a good breakfast and a quick walk, something simple that gets the day off on the right foot. The more I do that, the more I make healthy choices that reflect the good choices made earlier.

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.

Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change.