Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Golden

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

Bjorn Lomborg

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

Charles Krauthammer

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Bob Mould

...In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like...

Bob Newhart

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Bernice King

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

William Shakespeare

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead

William Shakespeare

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

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It's the small choices we make over time that define who we are.

There's a huge disparity. All the choices will be hers, and all the responsibility will be his.

Jane Powell

They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.

It was the fifth inning that was full of some really poor choices on our part defensively. Mix that in with several walks, two errors, and two triples by the same girl, and you have the difference in the game.

It was a quick turn around for us the first time we played them; we only had a day to prepare and we usually take it one game at a time. But, all three players are probably going to be first round draft choices and I don't think we played them as smart as we could have.

Darren Shan

When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

David Rakoff

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

As demonstrated by Glatfelter Insurance Group, it doesn't take a large company to make a big impact on employees through a variety of wellness benefits. Employees want choices and have shown their support by taking action, maintaining better health and staying on the job.

Offering the latest colors, coolest styles and fabrics creates enthusiasm. But people also fear making a mistake. A small percentage of customers want to do it themselves, and the vast majority wants someone else to narrow the choices so decisions are easier to make.

Mike Pence

Now is the time to make tough choices to ensure a catastrophe of nature doesn't become a catastrophe of debt.

Practically everyone in the Valley worked at Victor at some point in its history so when it went out of business, it put a lot of people out of work. At that point, we had only a couple of choices and we chose to stay and develop it.

Presumably, more choices are better than less choices.

I've seen two of his films, and his work is extremely high quality. He'll go so far as to let me preview the script to make sure there's nothing offensive in it, like he did with the one shot at the school during the summer. We try to make students responsible for their own learning, and give them every opportunity to make the choices for what they want to do. We definitely encourage him.

The sharp escalation in gold prices over the past year, up more than 40% over the past 12 months, clearly makes gold one of the wisest investment choices of recent times.

Archibald MacLeish

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

Barbara Kingsolver

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Barbara Kingsolver

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Barbara Kingsolver

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Arthur Miller

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Ayn Rand

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Ayn Rand

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Ayn Rand

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Ayn Rand

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.