Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erik Thomson

When we meet Jack he is finally trying to sort himself out. He did a runner when his girlfriend told him she was pregnant, choosing the life of a B-grade pub-rock star over fatherhood. He knew Heaven had a daughter, but has no idea what has happened to them over the last 20 years.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We said repeatedly that this election was about choosing the prime minister and now the people have spoken.

Billy Beane

We have four very good rookies, but at the risk of saying it before the season is over, it would be pretty tough to find an explanation for choosing somebody else.

Amy Jo Martin

When choosing between two similar applicants, hiring managers are increasingly turning to social media outlets to supplement information they are unable to glean from applications or interviews.

Pico Iyer

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

Ana Layevska

I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.

Most ironic is that Europe counts in Ethiopia, a country which depends on European aid, the largest recipient in Africa. Europe could definitely make the difference for democracy in Ethiopia. Instead, current European leaders are choosing to fail it. In doing so, they are not just failing Ethiopians. They are also failing Europe.

Dave Thomas

One of the reasons for choosing Peace is that it is compliant with Full Retail Contestability (FRC) in Australia.

We did not want to make it about choosing one congregation over another.

Hanna Rosin

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

Suzanne Farrell

When you're choosing nuts, make sure to get them raw and unsalted.

is about IBM not fighting the open-source tide, but choosing to ride it.

What you're seeing right now is that private equity investors, corporations as well as institutional equity investors are all picking and choosing through equity assets,

Kathleen Robertson

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

Maynard Webb

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

With this rigged system, lawmakers are choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their lawmakers.

We're seeing growth every year in the number of people who are choosing to get their refunds a week sooner, right into their banks, saving themselves a trip.

John Bytheway

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

So far, employers have been absorbing a lot of the costs because of the tight labor market, but that's not expected to continue. I expect we'll see more patient cost-sharing. Consumers will have to pay more for their flexibility in choosing providers.

In choosing a juror, we look for someone who has established credentials, someone who has established themselves as artists, (art) dealers or historians.

In choosing a friend, go up a step.

Lucy Powell

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

I just want to thank Habitat for choosing my family and the First Presbyterian Church for sponsoring.

Minnie Driver

Nothing is impossible. With the right attitude, you can do anything you want. It's all about choosing to be positive instead of being negative about things. Like I can look at ""not working"" as being ""no one's hiring me and no one will give me a job."" Or I can look at ""not working"" as being ""a fantastic vacation.

The TSA has not yet committed to permanently choosing to not use commercial data. They need to do so.

I have seen more women choosing traditionally male jobs. It's a healthy thing that women can feel they can do anything they want.

Michael Porter

Investors need to do the same degree of comparison shopping they would normally do when choosing between funds, which means digging into things like expense ratios, historical performance and holdings.

Ally Condie

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

John Lewis Gaddis

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

Derek Bok

I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

Judith Jamison

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

Choosing wall colors was one of the hardest decision-making processes of all.

Mariella Frostrup

Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace, but one of the continuing frustrations for women is the lack of respect they get for taking on the responsibility for domestic life, whether they're also working outside the home or not.