Choices Quotes - Page 82

Compassion and justice are companions, not 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.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.

I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

There are no signposts in the sea.

One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

We always have a choice.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

To me, making a horror movie is about how you can present similar genre familiarities, but present them a little bit differently. Part of what interests me is the nonchalant realism of it, because you don't get that in the big studio horror movies. I like seeing someone walk around a house and sift through the drawers, and things like that, because that reminds me of what I would do, and of weird personal choices that people would make. That, in contrast to seeing someone get chased with a knife, makes it all the more interesting.

To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?

The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.