One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to so I feel more connected to it more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I hate menus I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing but whatever it may be it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

If you want to look at the state of humans you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and actually whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health education equality and protection for all the world's children.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters the decision is made by committee and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly longing for death.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.