Best Chosen Sayings
1250 Chosen quotes by 950 unique authors
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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will…
— Rajneesh
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.
— Jay Leno
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as…
— John Owen
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As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath…
— John Owen
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As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.
— Paul Dirac
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the…
— Albert Einstein
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The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate…
— Jimmy Carter
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Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue…
— Stephen Covey
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The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good…
— Thomas Brooks
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For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth…
— Anthony Burgess
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A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that…
— Rajneesh
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Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the total, but it…
— Rajneesh
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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional…
— Lynda Bellingham
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Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify…
— Mathew Staver
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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
— Mark Twain
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I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will…
— Unknown Author
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The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.
— El Greco
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.…
— Nelson Goodman
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[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another…
— Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will,…
— Raymond Smullyan
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To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words…
— Prince Hassan bin Talal
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