I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

— Samir Selmanovic

My Chosen Daughter, No one can define you without your permission. I want you to be so secure in who you are in Me…

— God

I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this.…

— Hermann Goring

People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered -…

— Kenneth Cole

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor…

— Richard Bach

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect…

— Laozi

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

— John Conyers

When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Nadya Suleman