Choosing Quotes

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.

Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.