Choice Quotes

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

~ Michael Moore

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

~ Anne Campbell

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

~ David Elkind

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

~ Laura Dern

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

~ Billy Graham

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

~ Stephen Bayley

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

~ Ben Jonson

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

~ Jennifer Aniston

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

~ Marquis De Sade

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

~ Caroline Knapp

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

~ Sebastian Horsley

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

~ Margaret Thatcher

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

~ Mitch Daniels

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

~ James Gandolfini

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

~ Arthur Erickson

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

~ Jack Kevorkian

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

~ Ziggy Marley

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

~ Vince Cable

My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

~ Peter O'toole

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

~ Harold Wilson

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

~ Dana Perino

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

~ William James

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

~ Evelyn Glennie

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

~ John Adams

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

~ Ayn Rand

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

~ Rumi

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

~ Anita Roddick

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

~ Stephen Covey

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

~ William Jennings Bryan

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

~ Jean Nidetch

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

~ Jacques Delille

Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.

~ Meles Zenawi

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

~ Jesse Ventura

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

~ Keanu Reeves

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

~ Mike Ditka

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

~ Gary Zukav

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

~ Stephen Covey