Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Ruth Handler

Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

Roxane Gay

I am mortified by my music choices.

Ronald Reagan

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

Robertson Davies

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.

Will Smith

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

Will Smith

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Virginia Woolf

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

Werner Herzog

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Werner Herzog

That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.

Salma Hayek

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

Salman Rushdie

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

W. P. Kinsella

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

W. H. Auden

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden

Hunger allows no choice.

Wayne Dyer

Emotions are choices.

Wayne Dyer

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Wayne Dyer

You are the sum total of your choices.

Veerappa Moily

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

Van Morrison

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

Van Morrison

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

William Glasser

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Wavy Gravy

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

Stella Adler

Your talent is in your choice.

Sparky Anderson

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

Tim Burton

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Thomas Frank

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

Thomas Jane

I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.