Choice Quotes
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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
Francis Bacon -
I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.
Rachel Roy
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I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.
Jennifer Garner -
For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
Feist -
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
Epictetus -
I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
Kajol -
You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
Kate Hudson -
I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.
T. J. Miller
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When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
Steven Spielberg -
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
Brenda Shoshanna -
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
Gary Zukav -
Choice or no, my heart is his.
Beth Revis -
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
Epictetus -
Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle -
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.
Epictetus -
People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
Esther Dyson -
In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü -
When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.
Vikas Swarup -
I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.
Natalia Tena -
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte Bronte -
There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Alison Lurie