Chosen Quotes

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Believe in the life inside you, believe in the great and holy mind within you, and push forward with the dream you have chosen until you make it.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.