There’s been this sort of attitude in media in the past in this country that it’s not our job to fall on one side or the other. But what I’m suggesting is that in this day and age, there is no deciding not to fall on one side of the other. You’re going to be on a side, so you’ve got to lean in and choose the right one.
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
I don’t think I’m too thin at all. I understand when people say, ‘Well your face gets gaunt,’ but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don’t have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
Try to eat more fat but choose polyunsaturated fatty acids as they help the body to burn fat so that’s salmon, halibut, sardines, albacore, trout, herring, walnut and flaxseed oil.
For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.
All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.
There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can’t say it’s a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that’s resonating with you.
For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn’t give them the right to discriminate.
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don’t differentiate between snaps and chats. It’s just someone wanting to talk to you.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
If I could choose any car in the world, I’d get a Lamborghini, but I think that’s a bit too much money. I’ll start off with maybe a V8 or something.
It’s not a burden, you know? You’re going to work in fashion, surrounded by creativity and beautiful people, beautiful objects… or work in banking. OK, I choose fashion.
The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best.
You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
The word ‘spinster’ tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn’t choose rain only for bad people.
The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them.
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.
Choose something you like to do. I know it’s a cliche, and you’ve heard it over and over. But the reason is, you’re going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It’s my favourite colour after black and red.
Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the ‘good life’ we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, ‘No, I have to choose one’ and it was obviously going to be football, I miss playing rugby a lot.
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we’re here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
When ‘happiness’ eludes us – as, eventually, it always will – we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.
I’m age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I’m a big believer in people should act their age.
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.
Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.
I’m very delighted they didn’t choose to do the very musical episode of ‘Once Upon a Time’ when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn’t have been the best girl for the job!
Diffusers not only leave your home smelling clean and fresh, but the oils that you choose to use in it can leave you feeling refreshed and stress free!
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.
It’s important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street’s quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.
I do not like sweets. But if I have to choose one, it has to be rasmalai.
Remember that you don’t choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
I don’t believe we get to choose in life what we get to deal with and what we don’t.
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that’s what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won’t hear about any offers or options.
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
It is not a Pandora’s box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.
I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
There is good in everything; it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model – I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
