Choicelessnness Quotes

#1. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth.
We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.
But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

#2. Well, it sure as hell weren't no tree-climbin' horse. (Jack to Abe)

Seth Grahame-Smith

#3. I will protect him until I know he is safe and then I will have to leave him behind. I cannot be so selfish as to try to drag him into this war because of my own pain and suffering.

Kia Carrington-Russell

#4. Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book - which might surprise you because I think a lot of people think it's the other way around.

John Boyne

#5. There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

Pal Benko

#6. A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#7. A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.

Milan Kundera

#8. Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

Billy Graham

#9. Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

#10. Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

Michael Wilbon

#12. I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans in me got even bigger. I wanted to get away from the pressure, even for a single day.

Kim Yuna