Choosing Quotes
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. - Zelda Fitzgerald
Let this be said once and for all: it's not about avoiding pain, because pain is inevitable; it's about choosing the consequences of pain. - Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. - Junius
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything. - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us- and those around us, more effectively. Look for the learning. (Wake-Up Calls) - Eric Allenbaugh
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. - Charles Lamb
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.-John Kenneth Galbraith
Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.-Spike Lee
Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.-Frank Luntz
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.-Michael Porter
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.-Corliss Lamont
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.-Michael Porter
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.-Tom Hooper
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.-Junius
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.-Charles Lamb
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.-Steve Wozniak
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.-Ira Glasser
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.-Origen
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.-Oliver Cromwell
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.-Frances McDormand
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.-Stephen Carter
Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.-Todd Tiahrt
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.-Peter McWilliams
When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.-Jennifer O'Neill
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.-Mae West
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.-Paul Simon
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.-Lukas Haas
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.-Carol Bellamy
In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.-Rudy Giuliani
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.-Learned Hand
It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.-Sid Meier
It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.-Clarence Clemons
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.-Conrad Veidt
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.-Lasse Hallstrom
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.-Jeff Bridges
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.-Polly Toynbee
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.-James Payn
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.-Patty Duke
Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.-Pepper Schwartz
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.-Paul Harris
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.-Bo Bennett
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.-Louisa May Alcott
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.-Polly Toynbee
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.-Madame de Stael
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.-John Kenneth Galbraith