Choices Quotations | Page 5

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.

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

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too soon - so, while I am thinking about the character and thinking about her history, which is very vague in terms of what is given in the text, I am starting to have ideas about what her home is.

As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

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.

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

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

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.