Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Butcher

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.

Jessica Biel

A lot of the times once you've finished a scene, the best reaction is to say you don't really remember what happened. I don't really remember what I did or the choices I made.

Jesse Ventura

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

Jay Roach

I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you're spending all your time on.

Candice Bergen

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

James E. Faust

Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.

Janet Evanovich

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

Marian Keyes

I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

Nicholas Sparks

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

Neal A. Maxwell

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

Margot Kidder

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Nate Silver

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

Kathy Smith

Your ChoicES TodaY DeterMinE Your TomorroW And You Make YouR LifE ThrougH The PoweR OF Choice

Kathy Mattea

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

Julian Baggini

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

Julian Baggini

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Kris Carr

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

Kim Harrison

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

Kim Harrison

We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.

Ken Blanchard

No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.

Kelly Clark

You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

Kathy Ireland

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

Kathy Ireland

I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

Margaret Beckett

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

Mary Schmich

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Noam Chomsky

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.

Niklaus Wirth

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.

Matt Damon

...All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

Evo Morales

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

Evan Williams

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.