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Choice Quotes


"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."


"We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice."


"Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years."


"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."


"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."


"I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule."


"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."


"The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice."


"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."


"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."


"Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done."


"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise."


"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."


"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."


"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."


"You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice."


"I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better."


"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."


"Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?"


"If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here."


"A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game."


"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."


"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give."


"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."


"I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it."


"And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering."


"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."


"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."


"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."


"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point."


"I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices."
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