Top 100 Quotes About Chosen
#1. '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
#2. Truly give your all to passionately walking the path of life your soul and conscience have chosen, and boldly embrace all worries coming to you on that path.
Ilchi Lee
#3. If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#4. And then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth
George Orwell
#5. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
Lauren Oliver
#6. My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.
Cindy McCain
#7. The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
Beth Henley
#8. Not a god's chosen, but a god's cursed. That's what we all are.
Victoria Aveyard
#9. Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.
Greg Boyle
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.
Jack Ma
#14. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.
Lois Lowry
#15. The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
James Allen
#16. So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.
Andrew Kreisberg
#17. I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#18. He had chosen a hard life ... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him
George R R Martin
#19. 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
#20. Don't forget, when you refuse to make right choices, you have already chosen to live the wrong way! Indecision is a decision to live wrongly!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice. In a world of fixed future, no person is responsible. The rooms are already arranged.
Alan Lightman
#22. First, the thoughts are chosen,
then the prayers are spoken.
The candles are lit,
then the plea is submitted.
But soon after you move away,
there is wax;
melting, adulterating and braiding-
a new constellation up on your blanks.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#23. All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke
#24. If I had to sum up my philosophy of fuckness in a few words so I could cram it on a bumper sticker or t-shirt, those were the words I would have chosen: "Fuck it.
Andersen Prunty
#25. We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else.
Cheryl Strayed
#26. America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
Virginia Postrel
#27. I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.
Bonnie Wright
#28. If the season could ever have any salvation, if it could ever make sense again, it would have to come tonight under a flood of stars on the flatiron plains, before thousands of fans who had once anointed him the chosen son but now mostly thought of him as just another nigger.
H. G. Bissinger
#29. Because you, Your Chosen Oneness, can come and go down here as you please.
Josephine Angelini
#30. From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Albert Camus
#31. There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
Allen Steele
#32. I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen.
Rush Limbaugh
#33. Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.
Melody Beattie
#35. 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
#36. The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.
Shelby Lynne
#37. I'm sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven.
Octavia E. Butler
#38. There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself.
Libba Bray
#39. To the chosen people God ensured eternity through hatred.
Emil Cioran
#40. Even when she was dressed up she didn't look like a chosen person.
Philip Roth
#41. 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
#42. Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
Carly Simon
#43. Why did I pick what was safe when I should have chosen what was real?
Karina Halle
#44. Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#45. If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
Narendra Modi
#46. We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#47. Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
Jack White
#48. My becoming a film actor was more a twist of tale than a chosen course because I dared not to think I could ever become an actor. I couldn't even walk up on a stage and say 'Thank you' when we were to receive trophies at our sports meets at college.
Dilip Kumar
#49. A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#50. To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on - not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.
Lori McWilliam Pickert
#51. Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?"
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.
Madeline Miller
#52. Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.
Bill Jensen
#53. Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.
Julio Cortazar
#54. A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on high - a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilities - to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.
David B. Haight
#55. We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#56. Being poor is a choice. People make decisions every day that decide whether they are fat or stupid or poor. It is not my responsibility to interfere in the lives people have chosen,
Sarah Noffke
#57. My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
Francois Hollande
#58. The Chosen Butts became an instant club of sorts. We tried our best to be professional and not act overly excited, but it was clear we were bonded because of our excellent butts I mean acting ability.
Lauren Graham
#59. 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
#60. She was so like a sister that I forgot we'd chosen each other as friends.
Julie Metz
#61. Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.
Afnan Ahmad Mia
#62. Nobody really knows her
Except the chosen few
Her secrets are kept hidden
Behind that sun-kissed hue.
If I reach out to touch her
She'll just run away
My Forever and Always
Will have to wait another day.
Simone Elkeles
#63. From open sea she's chosen me
and dashed the hopes of many.
A life with her is worth the hopes
my love for her may bury.
Uzoma C. Azuonye
#64. Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
John Tillotson
#65. Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#66. You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.
Lee L Jampolsky
#67. But since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path required ceased to conflict with my conscience, because my conscience was calling me out into space, and was not much interested in what was happening on earth.
Victor Pelevin
#68. I am most thankful for what I don't have, for had my life's wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God's treasures.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#69. I could have chosen to hide it all and retain your praise but it was still there rustling in my gut with or without your love.
To hate me for my truth means you loved me for my lies.
Juls Amor
#70. Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#71. Heart of my heart, that's who you are, Adria Morgan. Chosen and forever." Picking her hand off his cheek, he pressed a lingering kiss to the palm before placing it over the strong, steady rhythm of that very organ. "Wolf and man, you own every part of me.
Nalini Singh
#72. Who can explain the difference between something chosen by the mind and something decided by the heart? Words are not kelp string. They cannot bind pain into neat packs to be stored away like food in a cache.
Sue Harrison
#73. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.
John F. Kerry
#75. Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
Joseph Addison
#76. And Lexi had to deal with that fact. She had to deal with knowing that he hadn't chosen her. He didn't want her.
K.A. Linde
#77. If someone "chose" you, what does that tell you? Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be "chosen"? Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world? The one who "chose" you? And the other who didn't?
Joan Didion
#78. Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
Robert Schumann
#80. Both the vessel and the receiver must be chosen carefully according to the nature of the ting to be distilled.
Karen Maitland
#81. In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
John Doolittle
#82. The Demon curled its lips back, revealing a double row of needle-sharp teeth.
I considered changing my chosen course of action; I considered fainting.
Robert Asprin
#83. The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.
Siobhan Davis
#84. I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
Richard Dawkins
#85. My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
Joe Perry
#86. He has chosen you, in a mysterious but real way, to make you saviors with Him and like Him. Yes, Christ calls you, but He calls you in truth. His call is demanding, because He invites you to let yourselves be 'captured' by Him completely, so that your whole lives will be seen in a different light.
Pope John Paul II
#87. Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
Gregory Maguire
#88. There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
Clive Barker
#89. Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
Krista Tippett
#90. I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
Karl Urban
#91. Nonmonogamous folks are constantly engaged in their relationships: they negotiate and establish boundaries, respect them, test them, and, yes, even violate them. But the limits are not assumed or set by society; they are consciously chosen.
Tristan Taormino
#92. By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus
#93. And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.
Albert J. Beveridge
#94. The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#95. Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
Pierre Trudeau
#96. Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. Later in the morning Miranda opened her wardrobe and found it full of clammy ghosts that hovered around her body when she put them on. The cold trickled down in the gaps between the material and her chest. Scarecrow girl. She felt proud and nauseous, chosen and moulded by hands that froze.
Helen Oyeyemi
#98. 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
#99. It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.
Pope Francis
#100. I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality ... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?
Jessie J.
