Chosen Quotes · Page 22

“They spoke of destiny and how sometimes we were chosen to do things that others were to weak to do.”

— Kira Saito

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

— Alison Krauss

If you're really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That's how I create.

— Masego

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must…

— Jane Swisshelm

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that…

— Oswald Chambers

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

— Elsa Maxwell

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

— Camryn Manheim

I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were…

— Casey Affleck

From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words…

— Anonymous

The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a…

— Kate Millett

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When…

— Brian Moore

Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should…

— George Gershwin

“Chosen before time. Called with effect. United to Jesus in faith and repentance. Adopted and forgiven. Justified. Sanctified. Glorified. And satisfied forever.…

— David Mathis

I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer…

— Joyce Banda

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel…

— Sarah Dessen

“Each day I'm thankful for being chosen. Sometimes I try to imagine what it would have been like if we'd never met...I'd…

— Kiera Cass

Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between…

— Ross Douthat

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself.…

— Veronica Roth

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen…

— Martin McDonagh

The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition…

— Larry Laudan

The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to…

— John Randolph Price

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on…

— Albert Camus

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a…

— Jason Segel

Trump is an all-American President. You don't get there unless you've been chosen by the leading elite.

— Bez

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

— Elia Kazan

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

— Mas Oyama

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

— Charles Spurgeon

I don't need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that's what I've chosen to do.

— Boris Kodjoe

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

— Edouard de Pomiane

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

— Louis C. K

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

— Thomas Merton

There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are…

— Ned Tanen

I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me.…

— Lauren Kate

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

— George Bancroft

To be frank, I can't say you are the only one... In as much as you felt you are the special one,…

— Olajide Oluwatobiloba

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

— Roger Rosenblatt

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

— Lech Walesa