Choice That Quotes

#1. If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.

Susan Sarandon

#2. We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

Warren Spector

#3. It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

Suzy Welch

#4. I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

Angelina Jolie

#5. Ignorance. In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

Ruth Ozeki

#6. When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

David Sanborn

#7. There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.

Michael Horton

#8. Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

Vivian Gornick

#9. Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Charles Rosin

#10. The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.

Timothy Ferriss

#11. A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

Gary Zukav

#12. If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

Oli Anderson

#13. There is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

Mark Nepo

#14. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Thomas Perez

#15. If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But ... this is what God wants of you.

Stephen King

#17. The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.

Sam Shoemaker

#18. She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand - and that did not give her reason to judge them

Patricia Strefling

#19. 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

#20. I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision ... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Barbara Deming

#21. You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it.

Faith Hill

#22. I'll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion -we protect religion- and talk about a lifestyle choice! That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don't choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?

Jon Stewart

#23. I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

Will Champlin

#24. It's not actually making the choice that take courage. It's facing it afterward.

Jessi Kirby

#25. Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

Caroline Myss

#26. Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

#27. As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Robert De Niro

#28. In every moment God expresses Himself in, as, and through you. Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. This is the voice that speaks to you always of your highest choice, that places before you your grandest vision.

Neale Donald Walsch

#29. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions.
But intentions aren't enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you're able to make a choice.
It's the choice that counts.

Jim Butcher

#31. Bravery is a choice that is yours to make. Don't let fear steal your will.

Erin Summerill

#32. If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.

Molly Friedenfeld

#33. That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Ayn Rand

#34. He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Sherman Alexie

#35. I have a choice. That's why I'm still here.

Amy Neftzger

#36. The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.

Robert Schwentke

#37. Make the choice that will let you sleep at night, Sam. Make the choice that will console you when it's your darkest night.

Debra Dunbar

#38. We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there ... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy ... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

Henri Nouwen

#39. Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.

Alec Baldwin

#40. Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#41. Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

John Robbins

#42. Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction - but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping.

Max Lucado

#44. I couldn't act like a normal person again when she now knows me as a crazy person, because that would imply I have a choice. That I can choose to be crazy or normal. And if I have a choice, then that would imply that I'm not really crazy at all, and I should just stop it and get on with my life.

Liane Moriarty

#45. I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks and if it turns out to be a mistake, if it turns out not to have been the right choice, that should be applauded, you know, by everybody, and it will come up with another plan.

Brian Henson

#46. We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Neil Tennant

#47. Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

Ian MacKaye

#48. The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

Rosie Thomas

#49. The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.

Dr. Willie Parker

#50. I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

Rupert Everett

#51. Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

Michael Martone

#52. No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

#53. Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

Gary Zukav

#54. It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period.

Christine Lahti

#55. Funny, how things became very simple once a man's course was decided. It was the aimlessness of choice that made mischief, among both sidhe and mortals.

Lilith Saintcrow

#56. It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#57. When I opted to work with you, I didn't expect to live a danger-free life full of roses. It was my choice that took me to where I am now.

Shaine Lake

#58. Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

Corliss Lamont

#59. Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

Patrick Stewart

#60. But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

John Steinbeck

#61. If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.

Manoj Bhargava

#62. Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#63. Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Willie Nelson

#64. It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

Henri Nouwen

#65. There's always a choice. It's what you do with that choice that matters.

Maya Banks

#66. Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.

Cheryl Koevoet

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

Melody Beattie

#68. Everyone has the ability to hurt ...
It is the choice that matters

Priyanka Kedia

#69. This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Taylor Hackford

#70. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

Jessi Kirby

#71. Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Joel Osteen

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

Gary Zukav

#73. You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

Niecy Nash

#74. There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.

Alicia Keys

#75. It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.

J.D. Netto

#76. I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.

Rick Heinrichs

#77. But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

Antonin Scalia

#78. It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.

Francois Hollande

#79. Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger.

Claire Sylvia

#80. The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.

Angelina Jolie

#81. I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.

Amanda Lindhout

#82. A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.

James Gleick

#83. What you leave behind for posterity isn't a decision you make on your deathbed. It's a choice that happens right now with the resources available at this very moment.

Jeff Goins

#84. It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Dorothy Gilman

#85. It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are.

Lisa Harris

#86. My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.

David Rodigan

#87. It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Denise Van Outen

#88. As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

Abbas Kiarostami

#89. Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.

Robin Williams

#90. I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

Heather Matarazzo

#91. Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

#92. In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail

#93. It's important that a woman doesn't feel like the ugly sister. The second, lesser choice. That's a bitterness that won't sweeten.

Emma Chase

#94. The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

George J. Mitchell

#95. The day Henry made a choice ... that some men are just too interesting to die.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#96. DANTE: And what if you found out you were right? What if it meant that I could hurt you?
RENEE: I would not say that I'm not scared. Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

Yvonne Wood

#97. You would be surprised what you can do when you have no choice. That's what courage is, Xavion. It's the result of facing what you thought would consume you.

Lori Goodwin

#98. love was a choice that I was capable of making just as much as it was a risk I was capable of taking.

Penny Reid

#99. Having to do something is an obligation, a duty, a will that is not your own. Wanting to do something is a choice that requires heart, desire, a will that is yours. Those two concepts are a universe apart. I wanted to, Abby

Ashlan Thomas

#100. Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make

Mohit Dhaka