Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Ray LaMontagne

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Rashida Jones

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

Randy Alcorn

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

Rajneesh

Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don`t choose you don`t help the trap to be there - the trap is also created by your choice.

Rajneesh

A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.

Rajneesh

There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

Thomas Jefferson

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Robert Holden

Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?

Rick Ross

At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

Rick Riordan

Um," Grover said. "Percy?" "Yeah?" "I thought you'd want to know." "Yeah?" "Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice.After that...well...he's hungry.

Tad Williams

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

Ron Wyden

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

Ron Howard

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Rollo May

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

Samantha Shannon

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Rupert Everett

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.

Tom Robbins

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

Tom G. Palmer

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

Tony Hale

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.

Stephen Daldry

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

Stephen Daldry

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?

Stephen Covey

I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

Stephen Covey

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

Suzanne Collins

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Stephen King

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

Solomon Burke

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Stacy Keach

Actors make choices for different reasons.

Stacy Keach

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.