Chosen Quotes · Page 20

I am extremely flattered to be chosen the 2012 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year from such an esteemed group of nominees.

— Jason Witten

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— James Arthur Ray

“I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont…

— William Faulkner

“Everyone around me was a liability. This was the life I had chosen and it always managed to catch up with me.”

— Joyce Chua

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

— Alice Dreger

“If I had to do it over again, I would not have chosen this life. Then again, I'm not sure I ever…

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

— William Godwin

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is…

— William Ralph Inge

A man can't ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is…

— Jean Chretien

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food…

— Beth Henley

Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts…

— Noam Chomsky

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would…

— Jan C. Ting

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be…

— Earl Nightingale

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or…

— John Bartholomew Gough

When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a…

— Richard Rohr

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be…

— B. C. Forbes

When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path…

— Rita Moreno

“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time…

— James Emery White

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Lisa Kleypas

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in…

— Sylvester Stallone

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

— Anthony Marais

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying…

— Neil Young

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

— Narendra Modi

Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my…

— Joanna Garcia

Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to…

— David Gemmell

Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die…

— Oriana Fallaci

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

— Carly Simon

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

— Farah Khan

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

— Jack Welch

“Your own chosen paths can never be wrong. It is just the intensity of your curiosity in you which is pretty low.”

— Shivam Chaudhary

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

— Joshua Reynolds

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

— Rick Riordan

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

— Gene Sharp

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

— Clive Barker