Jonathan Swift Quotes
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.Jonathan Swift
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
Victoria Aveyard -
You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
Nate Parker -
I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
Ram Charan -
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Parker Posey -
The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
Gary Zukav
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
Daniel Craig -
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski -
I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
Gary Herbert -
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
Pat Brown -
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
Ted Nugent -
I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
N. K. Jemisin -
We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
Dan Coats -
When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
Owen Wister -
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
Hanna Rosin -
Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
Scott Westerfeld -
Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
Betsy Landin -
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus -
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
Jonathan Swift