Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Harrison

He had two choices -- either take me up high, which I didn't think he would do, or cut me, ... I figured he was going to try to cut me because it's Monday night and you don't want to get run over in front of everybody.

Brett Butler

He hasn't been a detriment out there and he'll only get better if it's Bob's choice to keep him in the outfield, ... He won't fail. He won't fail because he's an old-school player who works his butt off. He's not satisfied. He just wants to get better and that's how you do it.

He has always been on DEI's short list. He was one of (Dale Earnhardt's) favorite drivers, and if we could ever get Matt, he would probably be our first choice for a teammate for Junior. But he indicated to us he was going to try to work something out where he is.

Scott Boras

Greg's drag, ... may be his own choice.

He is a great student and a fine choice to represent the district.

Having five choices in the first three rounds will make us a much better team. Time will tell if we made the right decisions.

Richard Bach

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Rose McGowan

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

Wesley Clark

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

Vinton Cerf

In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

Vita Sackville-West

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

Saul Bellow

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

Sarah Dessen

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Sarah Dessen

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Rohinton Mistry

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Robin Morgan

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.

Willem Dafoe

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

Warren Mitchell

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again....

Wole Soyinka

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

Warren Farrell

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

W. Clement Stone

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

Yvon Chouinard

Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Wavy Gravy

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

Walter Jon Williams

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Walter Kirn

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

William C. Bryant

Follow thou thy choice.

Rick Riordan

But you'll be killed!" "I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice." Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.

Steve Vai

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

Veronica Roth

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.