Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wilmer Valderrama

The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

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.

William Glasser

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

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.

Winona Ryder

I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.

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.

Robert G. Allen

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

Robert Green Ingersoll

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Ruth Handler

Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

Roxane Gay

I am mortified by my music choices.

Ronald Reagan

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

Walter Rudolf Hess

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. Its your choice, just say: I am what I am. There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

Wynonna Judd

In my darkest hours I had a choice to make. I could be a victim or a victor.

William Penn

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

Zig Ziglar

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.