Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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.

Tony Benn

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.

Tony Blair

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

Tony Blair

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Tony Blair

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Tony Blair

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Tony Blair

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Tom Ridge

We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.

Simone Elkeles

If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed.

Simone Weil

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is not a rank, it's a choice.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Simon Sinek

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Rick Riordan

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

Timothy Zahn

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Robert Anthony

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

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.

Terry Pratchett

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Terry Bradshaw

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

Randall Terry

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.