Choices Quotes

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

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.

The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

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

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.