Top 1200 Word Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

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.

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?

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

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

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

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

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

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.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.

Death is a word in the dictionary. I don't believe in that word. I think the most appropriate word is 'departure' because we are energy and you can't create or destroy energy, you can only change its form.

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

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

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?

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

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

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

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.

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

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.

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

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.

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

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

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.

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

[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I'm looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

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 word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

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

When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

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

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

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.

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

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

For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.

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

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

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.

I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.

"Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.

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.

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

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.