Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Upton

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

Fred Thompson

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly

Og Mandino

Use wisely your power of choice.

O. Henry

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Epictetus

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Epicurus

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Epictetus

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

Henri Nouwen

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

Heath Ledger

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

Hayley Williams

I make positive choices so I can be happy.

Hattie McDaniel

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Heather Matarazzo

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.

Joe Wright

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Joan Didion

We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.

Erik Erikson

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Emma Watson

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.

John Mellencamp

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

Jacques Chirac

Serbian leaders now have a choice to make, ... Or they can stonewall. But if they do that, they will be held accountable.

Smaller clients have been invited to participate in the program, but they have the ultimate choice on where they want to go.

Shawn had multiple options but this was our choice. We wanted to do the same thing we did when he signed with them four years ago, only this year with the intention of not leaving.

Shaun Berrigan finished up playing half-back - he's about our fifth-choice half-back in this club,

That's a strange choice, but we've wrestled Kalispell so much, I think they were confident Ryan would go for a leg ride. The coaches were all yelling that from the side and Ryan picked up on that and did a cradle into a pin for the win.

Ayn Rand

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Ayn Rand

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Ayn Rand

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Coffman continues to have the full confidence of the board. Coffman's decision to retire was a personal choice. He's ready to move on to the next stage of his life,

Dennis is the No. 1 choice right now. The people in Idaho would love to see him return.

Scott Watson

Any opportunity that we have where we can demonstrate some of the different programs that we have helps the parents make a better decision and helps the students make a better choice of what they want to do.