Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. - Pat Conroy
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. - J. K. Rowling
I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again. - Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem
I'm really scared now, from choosing, from thinking and from taking risks and going out of the comfort zone. But what can it be done??Time goes and goes, it eats people and it gives new people life... - Deyth Banger
A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another. "Are memories such an important thing?""It depends," she replies, and closes her eyes. "In some cases, they're the most important thing there is. - Haruki Murakami
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. - Alan Corenk
Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the What ifs and If onlys. - Justin Young
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is so much power in choosing to love yourself against all odds and I hope with every kind of painful experience you become more aware who you are and what you are truly capable of. Life hurts but it's also remarkabley beautiful if you look past the chaos. - Nikki Rowe
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. - Thomas Gold
Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn’t enough; there must also be understanding. - Elsie Lincoln Benedict
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. - Arthur Schopenhauer
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. - Hunter S. Thompson
Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is. - Chriscinthia Blount
I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind. - Donna Lynn Hope
«And in the end» said the witch to the drowning prince «You've been the one choosing the thornless path in spite of knowing where it could lead. The one who afraid of the pricking roses, plunged himself into an abyss without petals - Nur Bedeir
You know why Love Doesn't get Honest To you ?;Because you're choosing Them Enemy ;Lie ; - anne idris
We can wait for that inner inspiration to come or we can actively cultivate it. The choice is ours. Choosing to actively cultivate the inner inspiration of the heart is Heartfulness. - Daaji
You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control. - John Mark Green
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. - Charles Rosin
Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin
Rich in Happiness is about choosing new perspectives, new habits, and a new emotional future. - Alex J Kim
Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle. - Stephen Smoke
Choosing kindness is the ultimate expression of evolved consciousness. Grow by being kind. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Carrying a grudge in your heart or in your mind is like carrying a bunch of thorns on your body. You are just choosing to prick yourself with it. - RVM
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
One can overcome fear by acknowledging it and then choosing not to heed it." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee
Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will. - Ray A. Davis
A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day. - Marty Rubin
The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. - Leo Babauta
I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors. - Björk
Strategy is about making choices; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. - Michael Porter
It is up to the individual to 'choose' their repertoire of the self. If they do not have access to the range of narratives and discourses for the production of the ethical self they may be held responsible for choosing badly, an irresponsible production of themselves - Bev Skeggs
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. - Mandy Hale
I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be. - Jill Bolte Taylor
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true. - Mahatma Gandhi
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team. - Karen Witemeyer
Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down. - Sherene McHenry
Doing what is right will always keep you moving forward toward your destiny, but choosing the wrong way will keep you stuck in the same spot:No Where!- - Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth. - Helen Quist Milligan
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective. - Katja Michael
The sound of life, Everyone has got their own song playing in the background of their life , some has melody and some has depressing music and some extra ordinary people are standing their choosing the type of music that they want to play - Be that kind of people. - Alamvusha
Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along. - Auliq Ice
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. - Louisa May Alcott
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. - Maureen Corrigan
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
...in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't make decisions you would never do anything because you waste all your time choosing between things you could do... - Mark Gaddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive. - Stanley Kubrick
I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success. - Luci Shaw
The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all. - Lalah Delia
To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage - Anonymous
Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows. - Todd Johnson
Choosing the right people to surround you, and letting go of the wrong ones, takes courage.Be courageous! - Tony Curl
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. - Robert M. Sapolsky
Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first. - Isman H. Suryaman
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. - Jenny Trout
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. - Napoleon Hill
Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth. - Lysa TerKeurst
Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness. - Asa Don Brown
It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly. - Roy T. Bennett
It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted. - J.R. Rim
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. - Germaine de Staël
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach. - Isaac Asimov
A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way.... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on... unless of course you prefer sand. - K.E. Garvey
I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn. - Patricia Goldbach
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. - Ursula K. Le Guin
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. - Joel Osteen
All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing - Carl Henegan
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it. - Ashley Ormon
If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice. - Michael Neill
Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing. - Joey Lawsin
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one - Jo Linsdell
While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. - Charles R. Swindoll
Choosing the wrong way makes us feel different and ensured you to take right decision - Nitesh Nishad
By choosing our path, we choose our destination. - Thomas S. Monson
Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse? - Charles Bukowski
Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things. - Saad Salman
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. - Otto von Bismarck
I am exactly who I am choosing to be. Should I change my choice, the universe will always be there to assist me. - Jennifer Sodini
Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever. - Gary Hopkins
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham
When we don’t have way to express our feelings then at odds in choosing way and every path of life shows gloomy image. - Faisal Hafeez Mughal