Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Bolin

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Evangeline Lilly

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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!

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

Nobody pushes Sonja around. And she's not just a survivor; she chooses to claim her power with real grace.

James Grant

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

If a patron chooses to purchase tickets through a third party, they do so at their own risk.

I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,

Prince Charles

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

LZ Granderson

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

If the Fed chooses to do something less than that (half-percentage point), then you're going to have this major disappointment in the financial markets.

Steve Johnson

If the individual chooses not to report on the return the government doesn't often find out about it,

Clive Sinclair

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

Under the Railway Labor Act, it is legal for us to strike, and we will fight it in a court of law, if the company chooses to contest that.

But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.

David May

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

Romola Garai

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Steven Gerrard

I was watching Wayne Rooney before the game, he is like a dog on a lead at the minute, we can let him off on Wednesday if the manager chooses to pick him.

Henry Giroux

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

Richard Williams

Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.

Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.

Kevin Spacey

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

Charles Schumer

We hope that whoever the administration chooses to succeed him will be given the tools needed to really do the job.

The Likud faction was established before Sharon, and will continue to exist after him, ... It is a faction that chooses its leader, not a leader that chooses a faction. How is it possible to submit to a man who made a joke of the institution of this faction and its decisions, who now threatens that he will not stay in the faction if he loses in a democratic vote,

Tim Smith

seems so basic, but unless you require it, there will be that small minority that chooses not to for whatever reason.

It's just not the way that this administration chooses to do business.

When a major corporation like Intel chooses to relocate, the other corporations will follow.

The issue for me is making sure whoever chooses to fly here actually, genuinely comes here to support our national interests.

Darin Strauss

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.