Choices Quotes - Page 27

• Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Envy

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Thinking, Doctors

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

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• The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Mind, Bed

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• But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.

  Amy Harmon

  Regret, Different, Done

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• We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

  Jennie Garth

  Girl, School, Cities

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• The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, yours. Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Moving, Long, Mind

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• Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

  Tatyana Ali

  School, College, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives.  It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

  Gerard Butler

  Whole Life, Whole

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• Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.

  Brad Paisley

  Heart, Two, People

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• When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

  Zach Galifianakis

  School, People, Cafeteria

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• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Drawing, Attention

  "Weisz Girl". www.mirror.co.uk. March 18, 2005.

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• After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

  Brittany Snow

  Character, Night, Two

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• I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

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• With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that.

  Claire Danes

  Acting, Sticks, Unforgiving

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• If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

  Angelina Jolie

  Rocks, People, Judging

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• I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, Ive had more of a choice, and its been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that theres another job after this one.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Nice, Thinking

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• Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.

  Matt Damon

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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• When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

  Rihanna

  Giving Up, Doors, Two

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• For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Light, Tunnels, Levels

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• A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

  Jesse Jackson

  Use, Chance, Cry

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• I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.

  Frances McDormand

  Marijuana, Rights, Issues

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• The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

  Fred Savage

  Crazy, Term Paper, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

  Abbie Cornish

  Color, Care, Painting

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• I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

  Noel Fielding

  Art, Ambition, School

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