Chosen Quotes
The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.
The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.
To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.
God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.
I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.
When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.
I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.
I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.
Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.
Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.
The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.
I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.
Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.
I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.
People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.
I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.
The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.
Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.