About Choices Quotes

#1. The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

Umberto Eco

#2. Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

Richard Rohr

#3. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

Deborah Meyler

#4. The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Crystal Chappell

#5. We learn about people by observing their choices.

Claudia Gray

#6. A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.

Rob Manuel

#7. Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Joy Page

#8. The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

Peter Block

#9. Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Stephen Hopkins

#10. I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

Sarah Gadon

#11. Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

George Carlin

#12. Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.

Paul Hawken

#13. whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter.

J.D. Vance

#14. Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

Gillian Armstrong

#15. We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Marina Abramovic

#16. There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

Michelle Obama

#17. One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

Mark Hamill

#18. We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

Danielle De Niese

#19. What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.

Michelle Obama

#20. True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

Will Evans

#21. Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Camille Paglia

#22. Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.

Matt Salmon

#23. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

Ben Carson

#24. How does a large slice of fresh bread soaked in beef broth sound?" About as edible as the table leg. "Do I have any choices?" "No."
"Sounds wonderful.

Anne Bishop

#25. Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.

Gloria Feldt

#26. It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.

Abby Johnson

#27. It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

John Kehoe

#28. Our decisions aren't just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we're about to head. Show me a decision and I'll show you a direction.

Lysa TerKeurst

#29. No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

Neve Campbell

#30. There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices do I need to have in order to make a choice.

Sheena Iyengar

#31. When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

Billy Corgan

#32. The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.

Stacie Hammond

#33. I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Mila Kunis

#34. For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

Dave Goldberg

#35. I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years. But they can take a minute to think about the new robotic arm that could replace the one they lost to cancer. Then they can keep thinking about Kim Kardashian.

James Woods

#36. From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Warren Spector

#37. Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.

Stewart Stafford

#38. Most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em ... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.

Stephen King

#39. I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

Billy Corgan

#40. The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details.That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?

Rick Riordan

#41. People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#42. You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

Geneen Roth

#43. Some choices are forever ... Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.

Wendy Mass

#44. Entrepreneurship is about formulating a plan and then making choices, both big and small, that will help you to reach the next step of that plan. As

Patrick J. McGinnis

#45. 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.

Lindsey Graham

#46. The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY

Robin Sharma

#47. I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about choosing a career; it was about deciding who I was, which part of myself I wanted to be, and that's the hardest decision any of us has to make.

Mike Massimino

#48. We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Kami Garcia

#49. The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.

Jaime Murray

#50. We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

Candice Olson

#51. I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

Abby Wambach

#52. Why was I still traveling? Was it purely because it was better than turning around and going home, where I would have to make grown-up choices about my future? Or was I waiting to happen across a place that would tell me to stay?

Pete Spurrier

#53. I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.

Cassandra Clare

#54. If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

Francis Frangipane

#55. Retaining your power is about being confident in who you are and the choices you make, despite the people around you and the circumstances you're in.

Amy Morin

#56. Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

Bradford Winters

#57. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.

Lizzy Caplan

#58. The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on 'our side'. Is it?

Christopher Hitchens

#59. It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do.

Miya Yamanouchi

#60. I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#61. I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.

Daniel Powter

#62. To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

Robert Duvall

#63. A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.

Shannon L. Alder

#64. We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

Justin Trudeau

#65. The thing about courage is it's something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It's not just in you, it's in every choice we make every day.

Gerard Butler

#66. Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.

Mary Gaitskill

#67. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#68. Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'

Bob Brown

#69. The decision about what to do next was as difficult to grasp as the water swirling around my feet.

Renee Conoulty

#70. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

Lillian B. Rubin

#71. Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

Melody Beattie

#72. History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

James Howard Kunstler

#73. Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.

Alysia Reiner

#74. Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Colin Firth

#75. This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

Ann Aguirre

#76. I often feel as if I'm moving about as a double in my own skin, a Doppelganger walking a divergent path of my life's choices.

Lindsay Smith

#77. When we make decisions that honor our dreams and priorities, we also make choices about what we won't prioritize. We must embrace these choices as well.

Sarah Hackley

#78. I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

Moby

#79. There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

Stephen C. Lundin

#80. I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

Alex Honnold

#81. But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That's how it generally goes in my country. But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again.

Catherynne M Valente

#82. It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.

Jay Alton

#83. As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.

Bill Crawford

#84. Butters's voice turned bitter. "Them or us, choose a side?" "It's not about taking sides," Karrin said. "It's about knowing yourself. About understanding why you make the choices you do. Once you know that, you know where to walk, too.

Jim Butcher

#85. When you can, it's good to make healthy choices. But, I also believe in balance. It's not about being 100 percent this way or that way. It's about making healthy choices when you can.

Miranda Kerr

#86. I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Viswanathan Anand

#87. The only trust we need is that of our own judgment and choices about what is best for us.

Elaina Marie

#88. Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you ... they care about their own well-being, not yours

Wayne Dyer

#89. Mindset is your beliefs about your potential, skills, strength, intelligence and choices. Through mindfulness you can change your mindset.

Amit Ray

#90. Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard.

Vironika Tugaleva

#91. I believe in the science. When you think about GMOs, I spend a lot of time on them, and I understand them. But I understand that my telling people on faith may not carry the day. They need to see it, understand it, [and we need to] arm them with facts, educate them, and let them make their choices.

Ellen J. Kullman

#92. I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.

Robert D. Hales

#93. I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.

Mike Leigh

#94. Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

Lysa TerKeurst

#95. Every man knows about a particular body part that often seems to have a mind of its own. And every woman knows how absurd men become when that is the body part they allow to influence their choices and decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#96. In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

Oliver North

#97. If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

Olivia Colman

#98. The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Larry Eskridge

#99. Life was about making choices. Making mistakes was how you learnt.

Poppy Inkwell

#100. To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.
A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.

Sarah Manguso