Quotes of: Our-choice Keyword

Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or ou...

The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles

When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way. Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that nee...

Raphael Zernoff

Perhaps it's human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed the brute, necessary curriculum of surrender, we have no choice, ...

Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment

This is the result of our choices. Literacy and knowing how to respect oneself beyond being just a marketing tool that is sold every lousy idea and impression of society could easily erase much of the crime. Ideas make us who we are and a person bank...

Levon Poe

In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

Ryan Lilly

Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most im...

Bleeds My Desire

[last lines] Charles Xavier: The past: a new and uncertain world. A world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define our fate: each choice, each moment, a moment in the ripple of time. Enough ripple, and you change the t...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Whoever hurt you had a choice to hurt you or love you. It was his choice whoever he is, not yours. It is the same as how Hank made the choice to beat on me and Mom instead of loving us the way he should have. As you told me, that was not my fault eit...

Taken in the Woods

Between stimulus, or what happens to us or has ever happened to us, and our response, lies our power and freedom to choose. In those choices lie our growth and happiness.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Freedom and wealth is an outcome of “Time”; the most precious asset that we all possess. Time however is a variable to each individual as our actions from our choices determine the longevity and returns from this asset. To maximize the return on ...

Life

The very idea of penalizing based on propensities is nauseating. To accuse a person of some possible future behavior is to negate the very foundation of justice: that one must have done something before we can hold him accountable for it. After all, ...

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

Crimini e misfatti

It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.

The Whispers of the Fallen

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.

Robert Kagan

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

Sylvia Earle

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen R. Covey

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Marsha Sinetar

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Carre Otis

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

Connie Nielsen

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Hugh Mackay