Chose Quotes

968 Chose quotes by 788 unique authors

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school. — John Newcombe
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference. — Christopher Darden
In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again.… — Kay Granger
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an… — Azar Nafisi
The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would… — P. G. T. Beauregard
I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now… — Rod McKuen
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace… — Ayn Rand
I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be. — Atul Gawande
Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think… — Lady Bird Johnson
With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which… — John Rzeznik
We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We… — Jon Meacham
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as… — Anita Shreve
Let me give you a hint, young ones, what it is you will become as you grow. What things make you cry, what things bring… — Stefanie Schneider
I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all. — Dave Winfield
Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one. — Louise Hay
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it — Gavin DeGraw
In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white… — Richard Rodriguez
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was… — Warren Mitchell
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer. — Nina Simone
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could… — Gordon Parks
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors… — Michel Hazanavicius
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. — Jared Diamond
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight… — Matt Taibbi
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on… — Philip Yancey
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the… — Helen Dunmore

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