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Tag Name "Chooses" (313)

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Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.
Lawrence Hill
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No child really chooses his religion it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
Jodi Picoult
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Fishes do not roar they cannot express any sound of suffering and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
Leigh Hunt
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
Leonard Cohen
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God chooses what we go through we choose how we go through it.
John C. Maxwell
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Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
John le Carre
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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
John Milton
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Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that he will respond in what He chooses for you, and not what you choose for yourself, and at the time He chooses not the time you desire.
Ibn Ata Allah
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There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.
Jon Landau
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
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We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Isabel Allende
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago
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God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.
Jack Hyles
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Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.
Julia Marlowe
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
Kabir Helminski
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A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
James Allen
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Karl Barth
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The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
James Cook
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What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.
Kate Gleason
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Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.
James Dobson
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