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Choice Quotes


"Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done."


"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."


"I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it."


"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."


"After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit."


"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."


"To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country."


"Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice."


"I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place."


"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."


"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation."


"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."



"Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started."


"The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression."


"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."


"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."


"I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great."


"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."


"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do."


"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."


"It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes."


"Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years."


"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."


"The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice."


"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."


"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."


"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."


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


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


"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point."


"It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely."


"If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow."


"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."


"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."
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