If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

The choices she’s made have left her without choice.

I choose to be with this person.

My mother smiled. “I knew my baby wasn’t like that.”I looked at her. “Like what?””Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital.” She paused. “I knew you’d decide to be all right again.

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability...

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I’ve studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

I didn’t have much choice. Their guy was right behind me and my defenseman went to the other side. You have to play the puck and take the penalty if it’s called. You can always kill the penalty.

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.

I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and...

Once she starts asserting dominance, males have to make a choice to submit to the new female or risk being attacked by the new female.

As the fall grass nears depletion, we add free-choice corn silage that’s mixed with lower-quality hay. The cows consume over 30 lbs of corn silage/head/day.

We have no choice but to go to LSU and fight. We have to give it our best shot.

We feel pretty embarrassed. But we have no choice but to keep pressing on.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Choice for consumers is coming to New Jersey. The question is will it be sooner or later. We have the ability, but we still need the authority, and under that scenario consumers lose because they’re forced to wait longer.

In this life I choose you.

After twenty years of unbelief, doubt had become a habit. Doubting was easy, routine; it was my natural, instinctive reaction. Somewhere along the line I had stopped considering any other options. Doubt was my default. So choosing the blessing, the miracle, over coincidence had to be a conscious choice. I had to dismiss doubt as...

We had a choice to make; we could either send our donations elsewhere or we could find people to help.

When everything becomes tangled, you should make the choice.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

At this stage, Ahtisaari stands out as an obvious choice. The peace process (orchestrated by Ahtisaari) in Indonesia seems to be a real success.

Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is how we serve that love. And Ethan’s made his choice. What about you? Are you going to reject it, or make the best of what you’ve been given?

It comes down to a political choice, … whether this is the kind of thing where you happily wait and continue unemployment insurance in the hope that certain industries bounce back cyclically, or you accept the fact that certain job categories are gone for good.

This was a setback, not only for AT&T but for any consumer who wants a choice of cable providers.

What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.

Maybe there was relief to be found in the prospect of having no choice.

Happiness is not something we can find. Happiness is a state of being. It is a choice we make at any particular moment. It is a feeling we can choose without any reason.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it’s an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives…Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. This is our choice. Although often perceived as a weakness, being open and surrendering...

What’s awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else’s.

To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man...

A person’s looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we’ve been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That’s the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

This is about making a choice to have our civil rights acknowledged and respected and protected as any human being.

A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not...

There is always a choice.” “You mean I could choose certain death?” “A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is...

I don’t want to be told that it’s the people with power over us who are guilty, that we’re innocent slaves, that we’re not guilty because we’re not free. I am free! I’m building a Vernichtungslager; I have to answer to the people who’ll be gassed here. I can say “No”. There’s nothing can stop...

Fifty to 100 years ago, humans had no choice but to be active. Today, we have to choose to be active,

I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

My destiny plays with me in such a wayI feel I play with my destiny.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that bad behavior can be excused and understood if a person doesn’t know better. The theory that someone who has been abused as a child will go on to abuse their own children, and so on, because they don’t know...

We don’t choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

It’ll be more difficult to call somebody on the outside for the more choice assignments.

I’ve never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it’s my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.