Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Sarah Dessen

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Rohinton Mistry

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Robin Morgan

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Samuel Johnson

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Samuel Johnson

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Sarah Paulson

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

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.

Walter Jon Williams

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Walter Kirn

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

William C. Bryant

Follow thou thy choice.

Winona Ryder

I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.