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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

E. O. Wilson

Environmental

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde

Choice

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Kim Wilde

Choice

Mouse

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.

Roger Wicker

Choice

Research

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

Donald E. Westlake

Character

Choice