Choices Quotes - Page 37

• Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

  George Jones

  Lonely, Loneliness

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.296, Dell

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• If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Law

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  When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fighting, Exercise, Government

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• Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

  Richard Avedon

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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• Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

  John Mica

  Friday, Two, Eight

  "TSA bogged down in bureaucracy" by John Mica, www.politico.com. June 28, 2010.

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• To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
  g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Land, Giving, Taught

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• If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

  Lana Del Rey

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fate, Destiny

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

  Myles Kennedy

  Style, Listening, Just One

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• However, if "free choice" means more than a small selection between pre-established necessities, and if the inclinations and impulses used in work are other than those preshaped by a repressive reality principle, then satisfaction in daily work is only a rare privilege.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Free Choice, Selection

  "Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud".

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Toil, Doe, Needs

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.

  Hannibal

  Doctors, Philosopher

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• The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

  George McGovern

  Hurt, Responsibility, People

  "Recruit George McGovern to Speak - at the REPUBLICAN Convention!" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2012.

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• You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Care

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

  Arthur Miller

  Needs, Paradise, Innocence

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Kids, Years

  "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Challenges, Risk

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Missing, Want

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• A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

  Ian Fleming

  Gentleman, Suits, Doe

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• Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

  Epicurus

  Judging, Feelings, Aversion

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• I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Athlete, Soul, Luck

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Parent, Want

  "Mr Blair opts out". The Guardian, December 2, 1994.

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• People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Sacrifice, People, Answers

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• The throne we honour is the people's choice.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, People, Thrones

  'Pizarro' (1799) act 2, sc. 2

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• One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

  Frank Darabont

  Christmas, Suicide, Interesting

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 28, 2010.

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