Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.
If you don't make a conscious choice. . . someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.
Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.
The first person I click on can't be the right choice.
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.
Reason is also choice.
It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's what activated a group of people that was otherwise complacent to go, "Hey, I'm going down to the airport, and I'm going to hold hands in solidarity around Muslims in the arrival section of the airport. " That's why I've made a choice to be so public about my position.
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian.
The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.
People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world. . . But you have to do what's right for you.
My weapon of choice is my voice.
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.
The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand. “You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.
Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.