Choose Quotes
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor -
Some people may think that it is a dangerous attitude to take toward the Bible, to pick and choose what you want to accept and throw everything else out. My view is that everyone already picks and chooses what they want to accept in the Bible...I have a young friend who whose evangelical parents were upset because she wanted to get a tattoo, since the Bible, after all, condemns tattoos. In the same book, Leviticus, the Bible also condemns wearing clothing made of two different kinds of fabric and eating pork...Why insist on the biblical teaching about tattoos but not about dress shirts, pork chops, and stoning?
Bart Ehrman
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We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
Epictetus -
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun -
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski -
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Lars von Trier -
I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?
Brad Willis -
You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
Samuel L. Jackson -
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
Caitlin Moran -
One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
Oswald Chambers -
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
Walter Kirn
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Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
Ted Nugent -
Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.
Ed McBain -
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
Oswald Chambers -
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Harry Browne -
If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
Larisa Oleynik -
Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
Nancy Reagan
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And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Oscar Wilde -
If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
Betsy Landin