#choice

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. ↗

— Robert Orben

#choices #crisis #fight #flee #had

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. ↗

— John Olver

#bush #choice #civilian #conduct #cost

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#adult #ambulance #another #argue #assistance

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#being #between #blink #choice #give

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#choice #complain #easy #god #grumble

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#choices #decisions #favor #going #make

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice. ↗

— Xavier Niel

#car #choice #house #life #need

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#either #ends #faced #i #intact

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world. ↗

— Barack Obama

#barack obama #black #choice #free #free world