Choice Quotes

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

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

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.

Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

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

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

I'm a Christian by choice.

We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.