Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pico Iyer

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

Pope Benedict XVI

Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

Natsuki Takaya

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

Terry Tempest Williams

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Terry Pratchett

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Terry Bradshaw

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

Terry Brooks

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Randall Terry

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Shimon Peres

Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.

Shelby Lynne

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

Philip Glass

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

Peter Tork

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

Peter Kreeft

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Peter Eisenman

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

Pema Chodron

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

Pema Chodron

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

Peter S. Beagle

She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

Peter S. Beagle

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

Pythagoras

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

Ron Kaufman

Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.

Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'

Steven Spielberg

I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

Steven Spielberg

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

Steve Carell

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.

Stephen Hopkins

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

Stephen Hopkins

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.

Stanislaw Lem

There are no answers, only choices,

Linus Torvalds

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Linda Lael Miller

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Lester B. Pearson

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Lady Gaga

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Karl Urban

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.