Chose Quotes
968 Chose quotes by 788 unique authors
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
— Vance Havner
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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to…
— Criss Jami
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I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent…
— Monica Lewinsky
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Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in…
— Tom Lantos
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The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like…
— Brian Molko
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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
— Chris Marker
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Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you…
— Daryl Hannah
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Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a…
— Charles Darwin
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At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.
— Woody Allen
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Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate…
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
— Nancy Reagan
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an…
— Katarina Witt
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It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
— Eugenie Clark
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My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles…
— Roberto Cavalli
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I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
— Sophie Kinsella
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The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of…
— Gerry Cooney
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If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?
— Ahmed Ali
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If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or…
— Jack Abramoff
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I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
— Don Cheadle
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We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this…
— Nick Cassavetes
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We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as…
— Robert Cailliau
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I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with…
— Steven Curtis Chapman
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Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.
— Nonito Donaire
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