Famous Quotes & Sayings

The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.

Natasha Trethewey

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Nick Carter

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

Cate Blanchett

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.

Lainie Kazan

I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

Lauren Oliver

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

Jeffrey Kluger

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

Victoria Osteen

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.

Bonnie Langford

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

Gary Kovacs

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Powers Boothe

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

John Brady

We can't just use the weekly points to choose the team because if a team has one or two dominant players others in that side won't get any votes.

We have two fine men to choose from.

Seal

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

Rick Warren

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Linda Hirshman

Well, people choose to ride a motorcycle without a helmet, but that does not stop people from saying it's a mistake. Listen to the risks you're taking before you take the risk.

Nicolas Cage

When I received the script for 'The Weather Man,' I thought, 'Oh well, here's a parallel.' Sometimes I choose movies that help me do something positive with a negative emotion. And 'The Weather Man' was an opportunity to take this well of feeling that I had and just funnel it.

We've been getting a lot of people to choose from.

Henry Giroux

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

Sarah Parish

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

The decision to declare a disaster rests solely with the president. The reasons he chooses are his and his alone.

Robert Kiyosaki

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.

The Queen is contemptuous of monarchies that do pick and choose and do retire. One inherits after the other dies -- that's it.

Those are shared with employees if and when we choose to implement the voluntary program.

Tommy Amaker

We anticipated the post-double. When you post-double, you choose what shots to give your opponent. They chose to give us shots on the perimeter, so we thought we might have a good afternoon. It was something we were looking forward to. ... Tell me we're going to get open threes, I'll take our chances.

We are disappointed and surprised that Dave Jones would choose to make disparaging comments regarding Sir Jack - they are unjustified.

Those who choose not to follow the rules may ruin it for the dog owners that are complying.

We didn't choose each other, but we have a link, ... I want to forge the bonds.

We don't have freedom to choose what we want to work on. It's decided for us, by the Department of Homeland Security, where it's all terrorism, all the time.

Damien Hirst

Whereas if you suddenly go, OK, I choose to die now, you take the matter into your own hands.