Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bill Harley

It's really kind of a thankless task -- I mean, they get something out of it; they get to see music, and there's kind of a joy in choosing which musicians you want people to hear. But week after week, it's quite astounding.

It's potentially very significant because it's no secret that there's a split in organized labor. The NEA, which has potentially millions of members, is essentially choosing a side.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

Jonathan Adelstein

Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through standalone DSL furthers this goal.

The ATSB is choosing winners and losers in the industry, notwithstanding direction from Congress to the contrary.

Eating healthy doesn't take any more or less time. It's just choosing better.

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.

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.

Rick Dempsey

By choosing Windows over Linux for our new SAP solution, we'll save an estimated $1 million in costs over the first four years. We needed performance, security and reliability at a reasonable price, and Linux would have presented greater risk in all those areas. I need a proven IT environment that I'm sure we can support.

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.

E. B. White

Choosing to live an extraordinary life is simple. This does not, however, mean that it is easy.

Ridley Scott

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

Les Brown

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Sylvia Hatchell

But I'm not taking a kid out of another program. That's why in recruiting, a kid needs to look at the style of play when they're choosing a school.

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.

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

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.

Chuck Schumer

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

It's a good time to take a step back and think about the future of the space program, ... Choosing not to fly the shuttle would open up resources to get on sooner with what comes next.

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

Jonathan Davis

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Peter Green

There's a perception that the economy is getting better, whether that perception is real or not. You have a lot of people choosing to see the glass as half full at the moment. But I would expect that in a few days we're going to see some profit taking. This is really just a big trading range.

The most critical decision homeowners will make when embarking on a remodeling project is choosing the right professional for the job.

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.

Milton Bradley

The events written about are very regrettable. Any problems reported have been exaggerated but nonetheless, my wife and I have resolved all issues. The incidents reported will remain private and personal. At this time, I am choosing to handle this matter and all future matters directly and confidentially with the Dodgers. While I continue to work on my off the field issues, my energy is also directed towards preparing for season-ending knee surgery and a lengthy rehabilitation.

Milton Bradley

The events written about are very regrettable, ... Any problems reported have been exaggerated but nonetheless, my wife and I have resolved all issues. The incidents reported will remain private and personal. At this time, I am choosing to handle this matter and all future matters directly and confidentially with the Dodgers. While I continue to work on my off the field issues, my energy is also directed towards preparing for season-ending knee surgery and a lengthy rehabilitation.

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