Top 100 I Have Chosen Quotes
#1. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.
Frederick Lenz
#2. God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story; it is up to you to use a blunt pen or a ball point . I have chosen a ball point and this is just the beginning.
Bayode Ojo
#3. Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.
Esha Gupta
#4. If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
Ruth Bernhard
#5. Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter ... I have chosen the word "atom" to signify these ultimate particles.
John Dalton
#6. Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.
Rumi
#7. I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year's Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.
Joyce Banda
#8. If ye were of this world the world would love you, but I have chosen you out of the world; be ye therefore perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Honore De Balzac
#9. I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#10. I live here, I have chosen to live here, because life seems real to me here.
Nickolas Butler
#11. That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.
Christopher Moore
#12. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Anonymous
#13. I have chosen education as a bridge to understanding!
Teresa R. Kemp
#14. I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.
Gloria Negrete McLeod
#15. If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. I have fallen in love with the world
And I am aware that I have chosen
the most dangerous lover of them all.
Rod McKuen
#17. I'm with Julian, I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
Lauren Oliver
#18. All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.
William Friedkin
#19. Because the terms "sufferers" and "victims" are objectionable, I have chosen the term "patient" by default.
Katrina Berne
#21. I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
Voltaire
#22. For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
Zig Ziglar
#23. The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.
Winslow Homer
#24. Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
Ben Barnes
#25. 10. "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. 11. I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.
Anonymous
#26. When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.
Esther Hicks
#27. We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#28. I am love. Everything in me and outside of me is love. Today I choose to repeat this, believe this, and commit to this. I am love. Anything else I have chosen to believe is false evidence appearing real. What I choose to see as real today is love and only love. I am love
Gabrielle Bernstein
#29. To my own demise, I rarely ask why I'm hungry because I'm focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.
Elizabeth George Speare
#31. Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
Edsger Dijkstra
#32. While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
Cynthia Nixon
#33. For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed ... I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair.
Brandon Mull
#34. I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'
Andrew Van Der Bijl
#35. It's my life and I'm not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.
Steve Maraboli
#36. He is setting out to cure the world, she is setting out to save the world, but I have chosen to inspire the world. Each of us have chosen to try and do our part to change world. What have you decided to do?
Tommy Tran
#37. There are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
Albert Camus
#38. We need women friends, women who challenge us. I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.
Jane Fonda
#39. Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Rumi
#40. Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.
Bronagh Gallagher
#41. My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.
Juliette Binoche
#42. But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.
Mona Simpson
#43. My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#44. I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.
Peace Pilgrim
#45. Who would I have chosen? If none of this had happened, if Kilorn's master never died, if Gisa's hand was never broken, if nothing ever changed. If. It's the worst word in the world.
Victoria Aveyard
#46. Give to you; and if I have chosen my own time and way for handing it over, you can hardly blame me, considering the trouble I had to find you. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the paper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
Penelope Cruz
#48. The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
Jack Levine
#49. I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition ... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
Osman Baydemir
#50. Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
Hunter S. Thompson
#52. You are My witnesses" - the LORD'S declaration - "and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He." Isaiah 43:10
Beth Moore
#53. Save me, redeem me with Your mercy For I have chosen to walk only in what is right. 12I will proclaim it publicly in every congregation, And because of You, Lord, I will take my stand on righteousness alone!
Brian Simmons
#54. I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.
Thaddeus Stevens
#55. I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.
Pedro Almodovar
#56. I have chosen the way of my death, which is something few of us are privileged to do.
Linda Sue Park
#57. I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
Randy Bachman
#58. He always knows instantly whether I have chosen the wild or the world, directly I get outside the door.
Thomas Mann
#59. I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.
Laure Manaudou
#61. Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#62. There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
Rumi
#63. Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Albert Camus
#64. You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
C.S. Lewis
#65. I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I have to do to win is honor the path I have chosen and honor yours, too.
James A. Owen
#66. I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me. Psalm 119:30
Beth Moore
#67. Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim
#68. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and ye break every yoke?
Anonymous
#69. It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.
Eugene Mirman
#70. Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#71. You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
Kate Winslet
#72. It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.
Demi Moore
#73. And now, Irewen, I will ask what you hoped for all along. I have chosen you as my Protector. Will you allow me to be your Guardian?
Andi O'Connor
#74. 9but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.
Anonymous
#75. I have chosen to cast my lot with independent media outlets because I believe that only through independent reporting where you are not beholding to the interests of corporations or government are you able to really aggressively pursue the truth.
Jeremy Scahill
#76. I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single..
Nadya Suleman
#78. The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia Kazan
#79. You have become my own personal demon. You haunt me, tempt me, drive me mad with wanting you, and I can no longer blame prophecies or powers or fate. It's just you. I have chosen you.
Kristina Douglas
#80. But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.
Samantha Sotto
#81. I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. Isaiah 41:9-10
Beth Moore
#82. I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.
Suzanne Collins
#83. Go! This man is the agent I have chosen to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and Israelites.16I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.
Anonymous
#84. 'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
Oswald Chambers
#85. The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.
Shirley Jackson
#86. I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Carmen Miranda
#87. Given her choice of any three words to hear from Logan's lips, Maddie probably would have chosen I love you. But she had to admit, Lift your skirts had an undeniable appeal.
Tessa Dare
#88. I chose my way when I wed ye, though I kent it not at the time. But I chose, and cannot now turn back, even if I would.'
'Would you?' I looked into his eyes as I asked, and read the answer there. He shook his head.
'Would you? For you have chosen, as much as I.
Diana Gabaldon
#89. I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. I'm the reasons that partners have to be assigned in school instead of chosen, or why teachers have to pick the teams in gym class instead of letting kids separate on their own.
Ainslie Hogarth
#91. Fame and recognition break all scandals; if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#92. As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen - the last day I deserved - would have involved more chocolate.
Robin Wasserman
#93. Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.
India.Arie
#94. In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.
Okakura Kakuzo
#95. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.
Chelsey Philpot
#96. Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.
Khaled Hosseini
#97. I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.
Susan Brooks
#98. It reminded me of the blood that runs through me, blessed and chosen by God to survive all and whatever comes my way. I remember when I hold it that I have the strength of the Lord on my side, and I can survive ... All and whatever.
Maureen Lang
#99. My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.
Boris Trajkovski
#100. You have sacrified so much. And our Clan walks a safer path now. With this life, I give you pride, so that you may know your own worth and the worth of your Clan. Thank you for raising Whitestorm. You were chosen long ago, and StarClan has never regretted its choice.
Erin Hunter
