Quotes About Choosing

#1. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.

Colm Toibin

#2. A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. we can repair ourselves and gain our lost integrity by choosing to look more honestly at the knowledge that is stored inside our bodies and bringing that knowledge closer to our awareness.

Alice Miller

#4. Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

Max Von Sydow

#5. I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

Adriana Trigiani

#6. Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone's choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

Billy Porter

#8. You don't choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.

Heather Babcock

#9. We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

Jennifer Niven

#10. It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

Guy Pearce

#12. I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

Tom Hardy

#13. Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows.

Todd Johnson

#14. I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

Willie Geist

#15. Choosing to be deligent in all areas of your life is not for the weak of heart. It requires hope, strength and the ability to see the light through the fog.

Deborah Day

#16. When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

Conor Oberst

#17. Choosing to leave the lesbian life brings us into direct conflict with the satanic realm.

Janette Howard

#18. Choosing courage does not mean that we're unafraid, it means that we are brave enough to love despite the fear and uncertainty.

Brene Brown

#19. The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

Wendell Berry

#20. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Francine Prose

#21. This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. We need to borrow your boat," said Vimes.
"Bugger off!"
"I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,'" said Vimes.

Terry Pratchett

#24. In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

David Connolly

#25. Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.

Paul David Tripp

#26. The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Corliss Lamont

#27. Father Fogden blinked, brought back to attention. He made an unsuccessful attempt to stifle another belch, and transferred his bright blue gaze to Fergus. "You have a name, too? And a cock?" "Yes," said Fergus, wisely choosing not to be more specific.

Diana Gabaldon

#28. Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

David Rabe

#29. I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.

Kameron Hurley

#30. Don't use your skin tone as a guide to choosing the color of your eye shadow. Rather, for everyday application, pick shades of shadow that bring out your eye color.

Bobbi Brown

#31. That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Christopher Paolini

#32. The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

John Szarkowski

#33. I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor

Mary Todd

#34. You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

A. L. Kennedy

#35. I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

Keith Emerson

#36. I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it.

Forest Whitaker

#37. We have a saying. My people call it 'choosing the path of fewest lashes.'"
"That's terrible," I murmur; half to myself.
"You mistake 'terrible' for 'different,'" he says. "You have a similar say, do you not? 'The lesser of two evils'?

Rae Carson

#38. It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.

Cassandra Clare

#39. Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future ...

Mitt Romney

#40. What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.

Kate Gleason

#41. For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process.

Robert Kiyosaki

#42. Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

Brittany Snow

#43. In mathematics, there's a name for this short-term greed, the process of always choosing the option that gives you instant gratification. It's called the "greedy algorithm," and following it almost always leads to a plateau.

Bob Sullivan

#44. Choosing whether or not to insert a comma is the same as choosing whether or not to buy a house.

Chloe Thurlow

#45. There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.

Chuck Black

#46. The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.

Daniel Altman

#47. When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life.

Stormie O'martian

#48. At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.

Dean Ornish

#49. The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

Gabriel Byrne

#50. The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?

Stephen King

#51. Are our students choosing not to allow us to teach them because they do not want to be just like us? You see, it is up to them whether they will consider us their teacher (allow us to teach them) and become just like us; therefore, it is up to us to be teachers that they desire to emulate.

Sandra C. Carranza

#52. This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me ... and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.

T.F. Hodge

#53. Fear does the choosing between right and wrong.

John Denver

#54. I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

Judith Jamison

#55. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#56. Even not choosing is a choice.

Denise Grover Swank

#57. I always meant to convey a message of peace and harmony, and thought I was choosing my songs accordingly.

Susan Schneider

#58. There are distinct health benefits to choosing farm fresh eggs over store bought too. The fresh eggs have as much as a third less of the bad cholesterol than store bought. They are lower in saturated fats and had more vitamin A and E and contained more beta carotene and omega-3 fatty acids.

Mel Jeffreys

#59. The ability to accessorize is what elevates us from lower-life forms," I said in my lecture voice, choosing a pair of diamond-studded drops for my ear. "Like men.

P.C. Cast

#60. As his wife she was irrevocably tied to him - his opinions were her opinions. They reflected poorly on her, perhaps not because she held them exactly, but because by choosing Ben, by sticking with him, she showed herself (in the eyes of others) to be a poor judge of character. Though

Noah Hawley

#61. You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#62. By choosing to hang on to one's corner of freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances.

Wayne W. Dyer

#63. I'm going to check on you in the night," he said. "At random intervals of my choosing."
"I figured.

Sara Zarr

#64. Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

Dave Eggers

#65. Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#66. I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.

Gretchen Rubin

#67. Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

John Szarkowski

#68. Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

Patton Oswalt

#69. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

Ian Gawler

#70. Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.

Julia Cameron

#71. There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Ayn Rand

#72. People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing.

Richard J. Evans

#73. My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

Coco Chanel

#74. Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.

Richard Jeni

#75. Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?"
"Choosing."
Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face.
"I'm mine. Not anyone else's."
"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

Melissa Marr

#76. In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Keith Ferrazzi

#77. Like Adam and Eve, each time we sin we're choosing to be our own deity. We're placing ultimate trust in ourselves, not in our Creator and Savior and Lord.

Tullian Tchividjian

#78. If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

Greg Behrendt

#79. You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

Umair Haque

#80. Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

Paulo Coelho

#81. In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.

Sam Zell

#82. Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

Stephen Arterburn

#83. Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#84. I grip him. "Don't leave me."
He kisses my lips, "Never again. This isn't me leaving you. This is me choosing you." He throws my words back at me.
He kisses me once more and then pushes off. He leaves and doesn't look back. I fight the urge to run after him.

Tara Brown

#85. Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon

Jon Ronson

#86. [I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such matters as choosing your child's school or joining a union.

Charles Krauthammer

#87. True submission comes from a place of strength, ... because submitting means choosing to make yourself vulnerable to another person. It takes real guts to do that. It isn't weakness at all - exactly the opposite, in fact.

Indigo Wren

#88. Truth is ... we all will die someday. None of our days are promised in anyway. But by choosing to live great, helping others along our way ... will help brighten humanity each and everyday!

Timothy Pina

#89. When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

Paul Simon

#90. Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace.

Deepak Chopra

#91. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Leo Babauta

#92. Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

Duane Elgin

#93. Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.

Benjamin De Hoyos

#94. Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Yongey Mingyur

#95. Asking "Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? " opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

Debbie Ford

#96. Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

Norman Mailer

#97. Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.

Margaret Thatcher

#98. One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

Thom Gunn

#99. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

Nancy Pearcey

#100. You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

Jennifer O'Neill