Choice Quotes

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

~ Jesse Helms

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

~ Algernon Sidney

I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

~ Garrett Clayton

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

~ Billie Jean King

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

~ Aristotle

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

~ Lester B. Pearson

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

~ Nick Harkaway

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

~ Wayne Dyer

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

~ Alice Waters

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

~ Tom Brady

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

~ Stephen Covey

The difficulty in life is the choice.

~ George A. Moore

I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!

~ Sonam Kapoor

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

~ Martin Parr

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

~ David Schwimmer

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

~ Cynthia Nixon

I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. I don't think you can generalize, though, and what works for me may not work for other people, but I don't think everybody cheats. We're all different.

~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

~ Joseph Brodsky

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

~ James Madison

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

~ Ziggy Marley

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

~ Hugh Mackay

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

~ Mark Zandi

I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

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

~ Walter Kirn

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.

~ Meir Kahane

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

~ Olafur Eliasson

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

~ Annie Leibovitz

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

~ E. O. Wilson

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

~ Thomas Perez

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

~ Mike Peters

Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

~ Jose Rodriguez

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

~ Ellie Kemper

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

~ Peter Ustinov

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

~ Thomas Paine

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

~ Archibald Macleish

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

~ David O. Mckay

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

~ Michael J. Fox

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

~ Frank Gehry