Top 1200 Illusion Of Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can't be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like electronic rosaries. It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn’t matter what is flashing on the screen-all that’s important is that the TV stays on.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Well-intentioned liberalism always leads to progressivism. There's no choice there. Once that action is taken the only thing you can run on is totalitarianism - you have no choice.

Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.

It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.

Am I happy with the choice? No I'm not. But I'm going to make my choice, and I expect to vote for Donald Trump.

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an apartment in the cold winter months or paying rent; making the choice between paying a phone bill or seeing a doctor.

Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.

It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

I'll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion -we protect religion- and talk about a lifestyle choice! That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don't choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

America's all about freedom of choice, and I really hope that in the future we still have a great choice of vehicles.

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Are you going to be able to shave your legs? Are you going to be able to get married? So it was constantly thinking about both choice in terms of possibilities - I mean because choice is the thing that is supposed to enable you to be whatever it is you want to be - and yet, at the same time you have to think about choice in terms of its limitations.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice.

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

I like to sit and talk to someone, and if they want to write about it, OK. But when it's a chore, I have a choice. There's a choice for all of us, including me.