Choices Quotes
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The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
Zadie Smith
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When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.
Martha Beck
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Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become.
David Deida
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God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
Oswald Chambers
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
Lou Holtz
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We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.
Andreas Gursky
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It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.
Mackenzie Davis
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I have been lucky to be surrounded by other great working moms, like Tina Fey. I've certainly taken a lot of advice from her in every realm, from actor choices to mom choices.
Jane Krakowski
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I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
Peter Sarsgaard
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There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.
Alastair Reynolds
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
Louise Erdrich
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I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.
Lusia Strus
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I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort, because the burden of making hard choices must not be Israel’s alone.
Barack Obama
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Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.
George Clooney
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I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
Clemence Poesy
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Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.
J. J. Abrams
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The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
Vladimir Putin
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.
Apolo Ohno
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Katy Perry still gets me every time. She's very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!
Niall Horan One Direction
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You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.
David Rubenstein
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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Penelope Lively
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. Powe
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser