Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Epicurus

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Epictetus

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

We're learning about some different healthy choices in food and some different recipes.

Wash the Girl of Your Choice, ... The club is open 365 days a year, or close to it, and I don't know the last time it closed down for a cleaning.

Each (spouse) has done a fairly good job of making good investment choices. However, what we see is a lack of understanding of how those mutual funds work together.

Everyone has the same opportunity to get the housing of their choice (under the law). We need to develop new strategies to combat discrimination.

Amber Benson

Everybody's been faced with those kind of choices in their life,

These people have chosen CHS as their hospital of choice. We're very pleased with the show of the support for us.

This is a very important decision, and we want to try to make sure we make the right choice.

DJ Paul

This is just a step further to the roads of Hollywood that we've been traveling since our first movie, Choices I.

Karen Black

This is just a first step in many steps. We will fine-tune some of the choices that are currently on the site.

Clint Bolick

The new amounts are more realistic and should encourage new schools to open and expand choices for Cleveland schoolchildren.

Lech Walesa

The nation has made its choice. This is what they have now.

It's not comparable to a seller on the high street where the customer has a choice of supply. It's a company with a dominant market position. The commission has found Microsoft to be abusing that dominant market position by failing to make its technical information available.

Atom Egoyan

It's not as though I'm working in some sort of vacuum, I do know exactly what my options are and it is a creative choice to go one way or the other.

It's regrettable. But we have no choice but to pass it through to our consumers.

Larry Bird

Any time you deal a player, you would like him to go out of the conference. We're looking at the West, but if it's the East, that's how it's going to be. Whether we get a draft choice or a player, we're going to make sure it's the right deal. We've done enough to back Ronnie. We're in a position where we have to protect the franchise now.

It should be noted that Miami and south Florida continue to be our first choice. But the reality is we don't have a deal there because our lease expires after 2010.

It's his choice and we have to respect it,

Jim Hightower

It's been a long time that I've been suffering from having no choice but to copy information from a file of HTML format to, say, a document in the DOC format. I had to resort to all those cumbersome operations of copying, editing and so on. This utility has finally eliminated this trouble and saved my time.

Reginald Hudlin

It's a very serious look at her life and her choices, and the consequences of those choices.

Bobby Ryan

It's overwhelming. We had the roster to do it (nine first-round NHL draft choices) and we had the guys to do it, but we just got outworked.

Jennifer Smith

It's our goal to be our customers' first choice for home improvement, and we are very pleased that our efforts are reflected positively in this year's customer satisfaction index. These results are consistent with positive feedback we're getting from customers in our own internal research.

It's my choice to play (the national anthem) before each game, but it's his choice to coach his team. He didn't walk out during the national anthem.

Harry Reid

Democrats are all for giving Americans more of a say and more choices when it comes to their retirement savings, ... But that doesn't mean taking Social Security's guarantee and gambling with it. And that's coming from a senator who represents Las Vegas.

Danny made a decision early on which weight to wrestle and we set a goal to win the section. We made the right choice and he reached his goal.

Dan is a proven leader with a commitment to excellence and integrity. His keen understanding of the hotel development process combined with his operations and support experience make his appointment a win-win for Choice and prospective developers.

Consumers should be given the widest possible choice of service providers and should be able to switch telephone companies without unwarranted cost or inconvenience.

Consumers don't have enough good information to make choices, either on quality or cost.

Kevin Constantine

Then we have no choice but to make some tough decisions.

Everybody has to make choices about what they're going to do. The people that enjoy it the most are the people that take it where it takes them. It's not for every personality type.