Quotes About Not Choosing Me

#1. Is it possible that by choosing to spend your money on such things rather than contributing to an aid agency, you are leaving a child to die, a child you could have saved?

Anonymous

#2. If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out
a boy or pretty girl.

The friend I'd dare to choose
to stand by me each day
would be a dragon fierce enough
to scare the world away.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. But there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

Barry Lyga

#4. I wanted so badly to be seen, yet my pride prevented me from obviously asking to be seen. I did not want to be seen by demand, but rather by their choosing.

Magenta Periwinkle

#5. I little miss that part, why you want to kill me??
Because I'm not afraid of choosing and you are??
I'm clever and this is like a gift and you are stupid and you can't say it. Because your self confidence goes lower and lower.

Deyth Banger

#6. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

Dale Dauten

#7. If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself ... and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Stephen King

#8. I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Gaby Hoffmann

#9. Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

DJ Shadow

#10. Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

Flannery O'Connor

#11. My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Joshua Roman

#12. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Michael Botticelli

#13. In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong,

J.P. Robinson

#14. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. If there are segregated plates of fruit, I suggest a four-to-one ratio of non-watermelon to watermelon. Look, they know you want it. YOU know you want it. So if you conspicuously avoid it, that's an admission right there: guilt by omission.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#16. We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive ... by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

Andy Andrews

#17. Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#18. People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Louisa May Alcott

#20. I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.

Kangana Ranaut

#21. The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#22. Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

Dana Perino

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Emma Watson

#27. My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Jeff Bridges

#28. In the beginning, being alone is always a choice. Then it's not a choice anymore. When did it stop being a choice? What is it in me that stopped choosing you, that moved into you instead so that I have to be with you in order to be with myself?

Gunnar Ardelius

#29. You know I'm not trying to hurt you."
"Really? Then why does it feel that way? I love you. And you're choosing not to love me back. That hurts pretty damn bad.

S.D. Hendrickson

#30. Choosing to do things your way may doom me to be a penniless spinster."
"If Christ called you to be penniless, would you not become so willingly?

Melissa Jagears

#31. The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.

Lauren Kate

#32. This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.

Bernie Mcgill

#33. My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

Dallin H. Oaks

#34. I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

Joyce Carol Oates

#35. No, I'm not choosing him or you. I'm choosing me.

Kiera Cass

#36. He hooks a thumb in one of his belt loops and says, "How are you, Beatrice?" "Did you just call me Beatrice?" "Thought I would give it a try." He smiles. "Not good?" "Maybe on special occasions only. Initiation days, Choosing Days ...

Veronica Roth

#37. I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

ASAP Rocky

#38. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Luci Shaw

#39. It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.

Amie Kaufman

#40. Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

Rick Warren

#41. I know for a fact that a lot of my Christian friends have thoughtful reasons for interpreting the Bible the way they do and that the phrase "pick and choose" sounds far too arbitrary to describe the attentiveness and concern with which they approach the text.

Rachel Held Evans

#42. Whether electing abstinence from sex or choosing to engage in sex with multiple lovers, sexual empowerment is about making decisions which are right and safe and true for you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#43. To get the right things done, choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing where to focus.

Peter Bregman

#44. Changes in life, taking the turning point.
Everyone passes numerous paths along the road of life. There's a dilemma when it comes to choosing.

Hlovate

#45. Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

Maynard Webb

#46. And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#47. You're giving me two choices, and I'm choosing Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. I would choose Jesus over Donald Trump, probably. But you're just giving me two choices.

Anthony Scaramucci

#48. And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try." He looks off. "There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.

Celia Mcmahon

#49. Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Peter McWilliams

#50. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

Donald Miller

#51. I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we're choosing in every moment what happens next.

Rainbow Rowell

#52. As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

Sheena Iyengar

#53. Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. All

Krista Ritchie

#54. After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Najib Razak

#55. Freedom means choosing your burden.

Hephzibah Menuhin

#56. The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

Anne Hathaway

#57. If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

Sam Altman

#58. Biblical wisdom is a process that begins with gaining knowledge, then choosing to set aside our former ways of thinking, and then putting this new knowledge into practice.

Charles R. Swindoll

#59. At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Khaled Hosseini

#60. I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

Doreen Virtue

#61. My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom

#62. When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.

Virginia Postrel

#63. I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

Neil Peart

#64. Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

Robert Dallek

#65. By choosing to declare what's good and evil, you seek to determine your own destiny.

Wm. Paul Young

#66. A man who chooses a religion is also choosing a way of worshipping and of sharing the mysteries collectively. However, he alone is responsible for how he behaves on his path and has no right to make his religion responsible for his steps and his decisions.

Paulo Coelho

#67. Evil is evil. Big. Small. Grand. Petty. Well-justified or just because. There's no lesser or greater of it. Choosing between them does not make your soul any less blackened.

C.T. Phipps

#68. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Harriet Lerner

#69. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins

#70. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Deena Kastor

#71. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.

David Foster Wallace

#72. Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Parker Palmer

#73. The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

Lou Holtz

#74. I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.

John Cornyn

#75. The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Isabelle Huppert

#76. When it comes to dress, we are supposedly free to wear whatever we want - but if this is the case, why do we wear such similar clothes? Why are we choosing to wear shoes that are almost perfectly designed to make walking as difficult as possible?

Caroline Criado-Perez

#77. Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

Jacob M. Appel

#78. Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)

Sarah Addison Allen