Unchosen Quotes

#1. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Bell Hooks

#2. 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

#3. No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.
There can be no such thing as the right to enslave .

Ayn Rand

#4. The great danger ... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.

John Shelby Spong

#5. How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

Terry Rossio

#6. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#7. The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

Robert A. Johnson

#8. The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.

Roopleen

#9. He took your sweet, funny, perfect heart ... and he destroyed it. Why do you keep letting him do it over and over again?

Jess Rothenberg

#10. No one can tell you what to do or push you around. It gives you a secure feeling. That's the best thing about money.

Joe Mansueto

#11. Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Theodore Sturgeon

#12. Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

Alcee Hastings