Chosen Quotes

1250 Chosen quotes by 950 unique authors

In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen,… — John O'Donohue
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends… — Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions.… — Brian Stableford
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that… — Unknown Author
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of… — Kenny Smith
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we may… — Theobald Smith
Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by… — Tim Hughes
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him. — John Stott
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown… — Clarence Page
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of… — Bobby Jones
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about. — Martin Short
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who… — Benedict Joseph Labre
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it.… — Maya Angelou
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that… — John Bartholomew Gough
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a… — Samuel Johnson
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and… — Abraham Lincoln
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your… — Mark Driscoll
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best… — George Santayana
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the… — David Sarnoff
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. — Maurice Chevalier
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for. — Julius Erving
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously. — Dennis Rodman
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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