We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn’t want to sign, that’s his or her choice. If someone isn’t willing to give an organ, however, why should that...

[Specter said afterward that he had urged Bush to delay naming a choice to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.] The president was noncommittal, … The body language was not very positive.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

I am the Chosen One. I know, because I chose myself, myself. But to be fair, it’s not like there was another choice. It was either to be me, or not to be. And I...

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.

Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her

I don’t want any funny business, and above all I don’t want to be dragged into other people’s funny business. If it’s to be my head on the block, I want to know that it’s...

The answer can’t be found in books – or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You’ve got to find the answer inside...

Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day...

We don’t really have a choice.

socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.

There will be quite a bit of choice when it comes to watching television and unlike yesterday where customers chose one company to order television from, tomorrow they may choose multiple providers based on the...

Open source is a development methodology, and choice is not guaranteed by a development methodology.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He’s not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

It was his choice as to what kind of shot he wanted to take. Greg will tell you that his favorite shot to take is a three-pointer.

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they...

I’m single because I was born that way.

Of course. That’s what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick...

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

This law is a monumental setback for women in South Dakota and across the country. Anti-choice politicians in 11 other states are pushing similar bans. President Bush has created a climate with his judicial appointments...

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.

Some will be getting out by 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...

There’s always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit there and put...

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive...

I’m a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after ‘Mystic Pizza’, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

It’s my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

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

Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive.Predestination is the universal framework of limits (based on natural physical laws) placed upon us.Free will is our infinite ability to...

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Spread the good and it will return to you. Spread the bad and it will return to you. Choice is yours what you want to receive.

At the moment of death, the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or the worst out of the raw material he was given at birth, will stand naked. All sorts...

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best...

Choices determine character.

What’s the point of doing what you’re told if you have no choice in the matter?

We’ve made our decisions, We’ve taken our choices, What’s left, is only a hand-full of emotions.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed … or find a still greater man to marry her. … The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he...

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

I am the All Three Cats of love, and if you had to choose, you’d be wise to pick the middle one.

The truth is messy. It’s raw and uncomfortable. You can’t blame people for preferring lies.