Top 100 Never Chosen Quotes
#2. I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
Clive Owen
#3. I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.
Susan Brooks
#4. Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. I will never be OK with losing, but losing in the wrong way, losing with regret, can take your pride away. I've never chosen to lose that way.
Ronda Rousey
#6. Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
Carly Simon
#7. Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.
Mason Cooley
#8. This isn't about them. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her!
Stephenie Meyer
#9. I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
Sebastian Faulks
#10. I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.
Poe Ballantine
#11. She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.
Kate Atkinson
#12. There was a succession of roommates, never chosen with her input and all with cognitive impairments. Some were quiet. One kept her up at night. She felt incarcerated, like she was in prison for being old. The
Atul Gawande
#13. The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. You can learn a lot about a person by where they are from and where they have chosen to be."
"You'll never know what could have been if it never was.
Sarah Sloat
#15. Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
Robert E. Howard
#16. This is who I am. Accept it or not. The tattoos won't wash off, the earrings will never change. I am who I am and nothing more. I am loyal to a chosen few, I always keep my word and I'll protect you with my life.
Katie McGarry
#17. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. Life of Ages, richly poured,
Love of God unspent and free,
Flowing in the Prophet's word
And the People's liberty!
Never was to chosen race
That unstinted tide confined;
Thine is every time and place,
Fountain sweet of heart and mind!
Samuel Johnson
#19. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
Steve Martin
#20. Hoped if she kept the dream hidden and frozen
She soon would forget that she'd never been chosen.
But dreams screams as loud whether thriving or dying
And Helen despite herself never stopped trying.
David Rakoff
#21. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
Charlton Ogburn
#22. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.
Jeaniene Frost
#23. But I'll say this: I've never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I've never been more sure of the path I've chosen.
Natalie Grant
#24. I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.
Sophia Myles
#25. And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Jacqueline Carey
#26. If you had chosen differently, you would have never found me.
Natasha Boyd
#27. I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.
Frank Crowninshield
#28. When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!
David McIntosh
#29. Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.
Louis De Bernieres
#30. When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.
John Owen
#31. You can overthrow a king maybe, but not a god. I've been chosen by the fucking divine for this shit. Nobody can out rock me. Except maybe Naomi, but I'll never admit that.
C.M. Stunich
#32. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.
Paul David Tripp
#33. I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.
Richard Dawkins
#34. I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
Raymond Smullyan
#35. In all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
Julius Erving
#40. His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she'd never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. "You have me," she whispered. All of me.
Nalini Singh
#41. When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.
Samuel Johnson
#42. 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 colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.
Clarence Page
#43. I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.
Nadya Suleman
#44. There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
Barbara De Angelis
#45. You'll never know everything about the person you've chosen to marry. But the more information you have before entering into this commitment, the less chance you will be confronted with unfulfillable expectations.
Jerry Hardin
#46. If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.
Wayne W. Dyer
#47. I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.
Bonnie Wright
#48. You're chosen by the One who will never unchoose you. You're loved when the crowd cheers and when the lights go out and they all go home.
Sheila Walsh
#49. Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.
Seanan McGuire
#50. You love him because this is what you do. Over and over again. You knit yourself right up into these men's lives, these men who will never ever be able to love you back, and then you wonder like a crazy person why you aren't the chosen one at the end. You have to stop doing this ...
Collier Lumpkin
#51. 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
#52. Our fellow-citizens, as they now realized, had never thought that our little town might be a place particularly chosen as one where rats die in the sun and concierges perish from peculiar illnesses.
Albert Camus
#53. It was never a name I would have chosen for myself, but with time I accepted the title as if it were my birthright.
Brittany Comeaux
#54. The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we look above
with unbreakable hearts armoured in love
Munia Khan
#55. He mockingly gave her the raised eyebrow back. "You never gave me an answer."
"Yeah. I did. In fact, my exact words were 'no'."
"Yes, but I've chosen to ignore that until I hear what I want.
Shelly Laurenston
#56. I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.
Fethullah Gulen
#57. I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that I have not tasted the purest joys of life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#58. REFLECTION. In discussing abortion, its supporters never defend the act of abortion itself, but only the alleged right of someone to have one. They focus on the freedom to choose it, but avoid describing what is chosen.
Catholic Book Publishing Corporation
#59. Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
John L'Heureux
#60. All this time, he thought magic had chosen him. Maybe magic never chose. Maybe it had always been about the fit. A key latching into a hole. Maybe there had been just enough holes in him for magic to slip through and hook him like spurs into cloth.
Roshani Chokshi
#61. Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.
Anne Provoost
#62. I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.
Paul A. Offit
#63. It was no small thing that Palin was chosen exclusively by men, in an effort to win women, her strategy devised by men who had never run a woman for a high-level office before.
Anne Kornblut
#64. Storm chuckles. Queen, chosen one, horse thief. Let it never be said that you are not accomplished.
Rae Carson
#65. I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
Jarvis Cocker
#66. Never allow yourself to become despondent or weary, as you venture along life's chosen path.
Eleesha
#67. A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
Virgil Thomson
#68. A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
Aristotle.
#69. I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.
Lynda Bellingham
#70. 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
#71. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.
George Gershwin
#72. Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.
Charlie Trotter
#73. 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
#74. These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.
Orson Scott Card
#75. In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care.
Charles Baudelaire
#76. 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
#77. It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil
Ernest Hemingway,
#78. Each day I'm thankful for being chosen. Sometimes I try to imagine what it would have been like if we'd never met ... I'd rather lose you now than have gone a lifetime without this.
Kiera Cass
#79. I'm to be married."
"To whom?"
"I haven't yet chosen him. Never fear, I'll be sure to notify him before the wedding. Naturally.
Rachel Van Dyken
#80. Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone ... you can choose your family.
Jennifer Lopez
#81. You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
J.K. Rowling
#82. And suppose you don't like it? Excellent question; and, strangely, one I'd never asked myself, principally because I had chosen the ingredients, and I always have faith in my own judgment.
Truman Capote
#83. She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart.
Susannah Spurgeon
#84. The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Kim Novak
#85. Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#86. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.
J.K. Rowling
#87. I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.
Jennifer Nettles
#88. 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, received, and renewed. It is a lifetime's work.
John O'Donohue
#89. If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you've chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
Seth Godin
#90. It's like this ... a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that's all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen.
Colleen Houck
#91. 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
#92. You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
Umberto Eco
#93. If I'd chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I'd never have known what I've lost. Do you see what I'm getting at? Sometimes it's worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.
Jostein Gaarder
#94. The simply complete thing, then, is that which is always chosen for itself and never on account of something else.
Aristotle.
#95. I never knew much about business. But I've been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better record company.
Percy Sledge
#96. You've become a fire within me." He pressed her palm to the center of his chest. "Right here. Bringing light to places I never knew were in shadow." His breath shuddered out of him. "I can't go back to the darkness, Fiona." Suza Kates, Chosen Blood
Suza Kates
#97. To have chosen the wrong way was the greatest torture I could imagine: to be continually pursuing the end, with it never coming into sight, with every glimmer, drop of water, flash of light a false identifier that something was out there, when the likely path only led to infinite darkness.
Richard Heby
#98. I've never done this before."
"You're a video chat virgin?" He grinned and she laughed.
"You know I would not have chosen to make my video chat debut in my jammies.
Melissa Hale
#99. It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.
Paulo Coelho
#100. You must always remember that your future holds promise and good fortune. Count your blessings, and never regret what was not. Rather, focus on the path God has chosen for you.
Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
