Chosen Quotes

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

My colors are logically chosen.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

God loves you because He has chosen to do so.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single.

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

No one loves a country as much as someone who has chosen to live in it.

When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.

If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.