The Chosen Few Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public ... What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?

Amado Nervo

#3. Ballet isn't pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it is also an art that you have to learn and study.3

Catherine E. Pawlick

#4. Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Dennis Brown

#5. Adventures are to the adventurous. They abound on every side; but only the chosen few have the courage to embrace them. And they will not come to you; you must go out to seek them. Then they meet you half-way, and rush into your arms, for they know their true lovers.

Allen Grant

#6. The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

August Bournonville

#7. Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life?

Kay Cassidy

#8. We know, we'll all die one day. Death is the only truth that supersedes any factsheets. Very few get that divine blessings to break the palisade of mortality and believe me we are the chosen few.

Bibhu Datta Rout

#9. Human beings, perfected by our own technology. Only to be wielded by the chosen few. Not by the sheep but by those who are better, Those who are willing to make it to the stars through blood.

Daniel H. Wilson

#10. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#11. Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

Benedict Joseph Labre

#12. I have chosen the way of my death, which is something few of us are privileged to do.

Linda Sue Park

#13. It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.

Joseph Morgan

#14. There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.

Marcel Proust

#15. Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

Fay Weldon

#16. Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. We chosen few are the fire of our people." I beat my chest. "We are not Red, not Blue or Gold or Gray or Obsidian. We are humanity. We are the tide. And

Pierce Brown

#18. God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God's Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14

Felix Wantang

#19. I felt as if it were better, or not worse, to have compressed my enjoyments and sufferings into a few wild years, and then to rest myself in an early grave, than to have chosen the untroubled and ungladdened course of the crowd before me, whose days were all alike, and a long lifetime like each day.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#20. That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

Robin Hobb

#21. My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Zubin Mehta

#22. I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Paulo Coelho

#23. The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

Ronald Reagan

#25. It arrived only a few days ago and is still a novelty. Had it been present for longer, Caroline likely would have chosen a different dare, but the circus is currently the talk of the town, and Caroline likes to keep her dares en vogue.

Erin Morgenstern

#26. Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

Elizabeth Bowen

#30. 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

#31. Men who've made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they've chosen to follow.

Mark Lawrence

#32. The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#33. Know that I'm chosen, one of the few/Staying on top - at least, one up on you

Bun B.

#34. I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Edward Brooke

#35. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks ... kick in one after another.

Mark Lynas

#37. I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Charles Hazlewood

#38. 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

#39. For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

Veronica Roth

#40. In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

James M. Buchanan

#41. Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

Markus Zusak

#42. Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

Voltaire

#43. I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books ... True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.

Felix J. Palma

#44. Spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate goal for all of humanity, not just a chosen few. Be helpful, not hurtful

L.J. Vanier