People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
Sarah McLachlan

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Eric Clapton

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Arthur Conan Doyle

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
Julia Roberts

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor Adorno

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.
Simon Cowell

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
Lascelles Abercrombie

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

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Madeleine L'Engle

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller

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.
Thornton Wilder

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder