If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal… in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
We cannot choose one desktop over the other – Gnome or KDE – because there’s users for both code bases.
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Not a day goes by that I don’t look at myself in the mirror and ask God, ‘Why me? Why did you choose me, Ainsley Earhardt from Columbia, South Carolina, to be one of a handful of female national news anchors?’
The thing a player has to ask himself: ‘Do you want to choose winning over standing out?’ Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don’t think he gets enough credit.
It’s your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
In karaoke, you don’t choose the song; the song chooses you.
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can’t choose the consequences of your choices. They’re preloaded. It’s a package deal.
You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
They say you don’t want to know how sausage is made. Book coverage is like sausage in that way: better not to know exactly how the gatekeepers of mainstream media choose which books to crown as must-reads each season – just swallow it down with a cold beer and call it a night.
But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I choose to feel optimistic, because I don’t think I could get out of bed if I didn’t.
I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
I think that’s the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and chairs that are staples in clean shapes that will keep for the next couple of years or decade. Then an easy way to bump up your entire room or your interiors is accessories.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you’re going to be the best then you’re going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?
If I choose a holiday destination, it would be a beach.
I love dressing up. But I’m very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I’ll choose something as quickly as possible and that’s that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.
Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it’s not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that’s not a high-concept idea. But if it’s executed well, it makes a great show.
I don’t like the negative of reality tv – the ‘you’re no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.’ It’s all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens’ faith. We must be trusted to always place the public’s good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.
I don’t get involved in recruitment like people think I do. There’s a myth that I look at YouTube and choose players. I don’t. Having an eye for players is an art. I have no interest in doing that.
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn’t know why I was doing well, that anyone who would tell me anything; I was sort of like, ‘What did they say? Yeah, I’ll take that advice.’ Now I’m a bit more careful who I choose to listen to.
When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it’s meaningful, then it’s sustainable – and a meaningful life is a longer life.
If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you’ll still be a part of a dream – only it will be someone else’s.
What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
I’m trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
Of two evils, choose neither.
Nature gave you your look and there’s only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
When we, as a nation, put our minds to something, when we truly choose to care about something, change always happens.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it’s beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me – and when I am alone I think of them.
There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there’s a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.
Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
