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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.