Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

In an ever more open world, building peace through dialogue is no longer a choice but a necessity!

Pico Iyer

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

Neil McDonald

... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.

Marcus Aurelius

This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

Neil Patrick Harris

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

Taylor Swift

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.

Taylor Swift

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

Tavis Smiley

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Taraji P. Henson

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

Josh Lucas

I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.

Josh Lucas

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

Kate Morton

You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice...

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

L. Lionel Kendrick

At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

Linus Torvalds

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Linda Lael Miller

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Lester B. Pearson

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Peter Kreeft

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Peter Eisenman

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

Pema Chodron

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

Pema Chodron

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

Peter S. Beagle

She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

Peter S. Beagle

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

Pythagoras

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

Scott McNealy

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Saul Perlmutter

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

Saul Kripke

I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps ... Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.

Scoot McNairy

I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

Laurie Halse Anderson

And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely.

Laura Berman

You have a choice every moment of the day to open yourself up. And when you do that, it opens the channels of love.

Terry Tempest Williams

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.