Choosing Quotes

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

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.

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

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.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

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.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

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.