Top 100 Chose To Quotes
#1. I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
Barbet Schroeder
#2. I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend....
Laurie Perez
#3. Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.
Yukio Mishima
#4. Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
Billy Joel
#5. Perceiving a choice between her feelings and her relationships, Dana chose to be liked by others. But the self she displayed was a mask of the person she though others wanted her to be. The Curse of the Good Girl obscured and shamed the most important parts of who she was.
Rachel Simmons
#6. In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else's behalf.
George Eliot
#7. God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.
Phil Cooke
#8. There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.
The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.
Giovanna Cau
#9. Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.
Bill Crow
#10. In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.
Paul Ryan
#11. That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Lloyd Alexander
#12. I chose to do something everyone else was rubbish at in the hope that I would shine," he said.
Linda Green
#13. ... love born of the worst kind of loss, of knowing you could lose, and of the sobering knowledge that these cherished moments they chose to grasp this night were stolen from the hands of time.
Susan Rodgers
#14. At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.
Woody Allen
#15. He chose to love us. He chose to lay down His life for us. The danger of believing that you "fall in love" is that it also means you can "fall out of love" just as unexpectedly. Aren't you glad that God's love for us isn't as unpredictable?
Joshua Harris
#16. But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside. I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn't even begin to understand.
Jojo Moyes
#17. There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.
Gabriella Gillespie
#18. When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?
Linda K. Burton
#19. I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
Queen Latifah
#20. And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory
Nelou Keramati
#21. I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.
Rebecca Goldstein
#22. A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.
Lori Lesko
#23. David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.
Mario Cuomo
#24. Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
M.J. Rose
#25. Upshaw - Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis's friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized," as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two worlds. He chose to pose in the clothes of his ancestors.
Timothy Egan
#26. It's all because of you. Your bravery, your zest for life, your ability to shake off the negative. You are radiant now because you chose to be happy and forgive your past.
Jenni James
#27. I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#28. I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
Paul Weller
#29. It is unfair to use that gun against a fellow human and then blame God because you chose to take another man's life. (Simon)
Pete Conrad
#30. I needed to love you more than I wanted to dominate you. Don't doubt for a second that I chose to love you.
C.D. Reiss
#31. Please rehearse new material," Brian's telegram said. They chose to interpret this as "please write new material" and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn.
Mark Lewisohn
#32. I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
Black Francis
#33. God did not need to create you, but he chose to create you for his own enjoyment. You exist for his benefit, his glory, his purpose, and his delight.
Rick Warren
#34. Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God's fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.
Lee Strobel
#35. God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
David Platt
#36. Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.
Jane Austen
#37. When the Son of God chose to submit to this trial in his own person, he became an example to all believers, so that they may carefully avoid falling into Satan's snares by a wrong use of Scripture. And
John Calvin
#38. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.
Mindy Kaling
#39. When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.
Teri Hatcher
#40. Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#41. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
Harold Prince
#42. Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.
Margaret George
#43. When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'
Hillary Clinton
#44. Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.
Naomi Wood
#45. I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'
Lucy Punch
#46. Edda danced in the ballet. That was her job. 'Job' was not the word other people chose to describe what Edda did, but the right word nonetheless. Words were queer that way, Edda often thought. They classified things. In her case they could place someone in another dimension.
Brooke McEldowney
#47. When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'
Ansel Elgort
#48. My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
Vince Vaughn
#49. I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#50. Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company.
Francis Webster
#51. With fame, money and sex settled, he had to find something else to fight, and like any honorable man he chose to fight his own people. And that was how Byron the sentimental poet of graveyards and lost loves became the Satanic joker all England loved to hate.
John C. Dolan
#52. Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.
Michael Pollan
#53. Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.
Richard G. Scott
#54. We don't know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn't say.
K. Howard Joslin
#55. I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#56. Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice ... They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.
Richard G. Scott
#57. Love is a double-edged sword. It can be a gift from God or a curse from the devil, all depending on how you chose to wield it.
K'wan
#58. The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#59. There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
C.S. Lewis
#60. We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function
free to think and work as we choose ...
free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.
Ayn Rand
#61. I turned and walked away then shook my head when Alec chose to walk behind me instead of beside me.
"Don't shake your head, if he wants an ass to stare at he will have to make do with mine.
L.A. Casey
#62. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.
Pope Leo I
#63. Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?
Vicki Robin
#64. I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.
Rita Zahara
#66. I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.
Lena Horne
#67. John could have prevented all of this from happening, but instead chose to educate us through the obscenity of proof.
David Price
#68. Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.
Peter Benchley
#69. But this time I chose to silence both my head and my heart so that I could listen carefully to the silent flutter of wings.
Lacey Ellmoore
#70. So you admit of your own free will that you chose to date the most dangerous Russian mobster on the FBI's radar?" I looked him right in the eye and said, "I think that you need to go, because as far as I am concerned, the government crossed a line when they sent you to monitor who I fuck.
Suzanne Steele
#71. A tomb is a vault, a vault is a home," Mr. Sadlot said casually sniffing the flower in his lapel. "That's where the deceased chose to reside and that is where he will be placed." Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp
Robert W. Sweeting
#72. Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved.
Victoria Hislop
#73. I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.
Robin McGraw
#74. Grumble is the god of henchmen and minions. Once a former lackey himself, after his deification he chose to look over his own people rather than putting on airs.
Drew Hayes
#75. I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
Cathy Freeman
#76. Not exactly hard, is it?"
"That's what she said," Kate interjected.
Matt shook his head. "And this is where I chose to lay my affections," he muttered, like it was just the latest in a series of bad life choices he'd made.
Lauren James
#77. Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.
Curtis Granderson
#78. I chose to love you because my heart wasn't giving me any other option
Len Webster
#79. Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.
Peter Benchley
#80. I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.
Monica Lewinsky
#81. It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.
Tarek Saab
#82. I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.
Kristin Cashore
#83. I found Reagan in the crowd and chose to stand next to her. I now had a place in her life, this was me stepping up to fulfill it.
Rachel Higginson
#84. I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness.
Robyn Schneider
#85. What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.
Robert Jay Lifton
#86. I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
Christopher Darden
#87. The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero
Lisa Maxwell
#88. During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman
#89. Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever be alive.
Joseph DiFrancesco
#90. There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.
Liu Bolin
#92. Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
Richard LaGravenese
#93. So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
Allen Ginsberg
#94. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Anne Campbell
#95. I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.
Lauren F. Winner
#96. You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What's saner than that?
Mindy McGinnis
#97. I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
Angela Merkel
#98. God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.
Arthur W. Pink
#99. Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" ... enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.
Pope Benedict XVI
#100. She chose to fight men everyday, and then fight their sons, who thought they knew better than their fathers.
E.K. Johnston
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