Quotes on Choice

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

Author: F. Abraham

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Author: Theodor Adorno

I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.

Author: Jean Alesi

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

Author: Tatyana Ali

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

Author: Sharron Angle

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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

Author: Billie Armstrong

There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

Author: Alan Autry

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

Author: Brian Baird

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Author: George Baker

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

Author: Christine Baranski

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

Author: Joseph Barbera

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Author: Melissa Bean

There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

Author: Jill Bennett

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

Author: Candice Bergen

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

Author: Nuno Bettencourt

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

Author: Jack Bowman

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

Author: Terry Bradshaw

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

Author: John Buford

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

Author: Sandra Bullock

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

Author: Tim Burton

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Author: Michael Caine

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

Author: Stephen Cambone

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Author: Shaun Cassidy

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

Author: Barbara Castle

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

Author: Michael Castle

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Author: Deepak Chopra

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Author: Alonzo Church

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

Author: John Clare

I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

Author: Mackenzie Crook

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

Author: Lea DeLaria

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

Author: Edward Dmytryk

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Author: Max Eastman

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Author: Marian Edelman

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

Author: Daniel Evans

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Author: Frantz Fanon

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Author: William Faulkner

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Author: Jon Fishman

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

Author: Ari Fleischer

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

Author: Harold Ford

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

Author: John Ford

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

Author: John Frankenheimer

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

Author: John Frankenheimer

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

Author: John Frankenheimer

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.

Author: Robert Fritz

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Author: John Galbraith

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

Author: John Gay

We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.

Author: Jim Geringer

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Author: Edward Gibbon

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Author: Nikki Giovanni

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

Author: Rob Glaser

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Author: William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

Author: William Glasser

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Author: Barry Goldwater

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

Author: Peter Grant

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

Author: William Gray

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

Author: Merle Haggard

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

But, if you don't like your current Rx coverage or don't have any coverage to begin with, you'll now have the choice to add this new affordable option to your current Medicare plan.

Author: Dennis Hastert

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Author: Stephen Hopkins

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Author: Douglas Horton

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Author: Guillermo Infante

Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

Author: Patricia Ireland

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Author: Amy Irving

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Author: Jane Jacobs

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Author: William James

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

Author: Louise Jameson

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

Author: Valerie Jarrett

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

Author: Daniel Johns

The Fed chairmanship is not the kind of job where you want to surprise everyone with your choice of a total unknown. You don't want to surprise Wall Street.

Author: David Jones

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Author: Franz Kafka

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

Author: Meir Kahane

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Author: Leon Kass

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

Author: Charles Kennedy

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

Author: Vanessa Kerry

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

Author: Jack Kevorkian

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

Author: Leo Kottke

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

Author: Ted Kulongoski

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

Author: Karolina Kurkova

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Author: Corliss Lamont

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

Author: Rush Limbaugh

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Author: Ben Linder

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Author: Penelope Lively

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

Author: George MacDonald

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Author: Archibald MacLeish

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

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

Author: Patrick Marber

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Author: John Maxwell

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Author: David McKay

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

Author: Hayao Miyazaki

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Author: Alfred Montapert

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Author: Toni Morrison

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

Author: Alison Moyet

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.

Author: Hosni Mubarak

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

Author: Robert Mugabe

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

Author: John Nash, Jr.

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.

Author: Graham Nelson

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Author: Willie Nelson

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

Author: Stevie Nicks

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

Author: Michelle Obama

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

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

Author: Tom Palmer

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Author: Neil Peart

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

Author: Shimon Peres

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Author: Michael Polanyi

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

Author: Marcus Pollio

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.

Author: Michael Powell

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

Author: John Prescott

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Author: Richard Price

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

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Author: Phylicia Rashad

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

Author: Ed Rendell

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Author: Samuel Richardson

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Author: Pat Riley

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

Author: Lord Robertson

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

Author: Mike Royko

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

Author: Marco Rubio

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Author: Vita Sackville-West

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

Author: Eriq Salle

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Author: Jean Savarin

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Author: Jason Schwartzman

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.

Author: Lee Scott

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Author: Amartya Sen

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

Author: William Sherman

After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

Author: Nancy Sinatra

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Author: Marsha Sinetar

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Author: Isaac Singer

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Author: Isaac Singer

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Author: Yakov Smirnoff

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

Author: Stephen Sondheim

At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.

Author: David Soul

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

Author: Howard Stern

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Author: Sting

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Author: Amy Tan

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

Author: Audrey Tautou

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Author: Gore Vidal

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.

Author: Donnie Wahlberg

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose our response to them.

Author: Viktor Frankl

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.

Author: Roger Wicker

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Author: Kim Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Author: Oscar Wilde