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Choice Quotes
"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
240
"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
170
"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
136
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
129
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
82
"A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game."
76
"The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy filled with bees singing. And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction, (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to a single possibility."
75
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
69
"I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."
69
"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
67
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
66
"The point of cities is multiplicity of choice."
65
"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."
65
"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
63
"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."
62
"Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require."
61
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
61
"The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions."
60
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise."
60
"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
59
"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
58
"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
57
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
55
"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
55
"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
55
"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
55
"'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales."
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