Choice Quotes

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

~ Tom Colicchio

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

~ John Ridley

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

~ Paloma Faith

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

~ Daniel Nathans

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

~ Leon Blum

I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.

~ Tracy K. Smith

I just have to be very clear. Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it's purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren't attractive - because I think they're awesome and sexy.

~ Chrissy Metz

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

~ Paul Ryan

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

~ Glenn Thompson

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

~ Linda Mccartney

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

~ Theresa May

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

~ Alain Ducasse

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

~ John Hutton

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

~ Petra Nemcova

Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.

~ Victoria Osteen

I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

~ Kajol

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

~ Virginia Postrel

The i730 combines the familiarity of Windows Mobile software with the innovative design of Samsung that will be a popular choice for mobile professionals.

~ Suzan Delbene

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

~ Chris Geere

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

~ Pink

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

~ Donald Johanson

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

~ James Dobson

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

~ Gloria Steinem

I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign policy rather than carnival bark outside the sideshow tents of gay marriage and reproductive choice.

~ Roger Stone

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

~ Harold Ford

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

~ Joyce Meyer

We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.

~ David Harsanyi

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

~ Tom Brady

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

~ Martha Beck

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

~ Rita Dove

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

~ Théophile Gautier

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

~ Tracy Morgan

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

~ Zach Galifianakis

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

~ John Morley

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

~ Courteney Cox

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

~ Sting

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

~ Sylvia Plath

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

~ Wayne Dyer