Choice Quotes

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

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.

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

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

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

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

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 are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

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

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

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

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

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

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?