Choosing Quotes

• ... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Choosing

• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Religion

• The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured we shared a sense of loss and displacement.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Loss
  • Landscapes
  • Snail

• I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.

  

  Nina Nesbitt
  • Career
  • Sound
  • Songs

• “If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.”

  

  Colin Bateman
  • Alone
  • Darkness
  • Choosing

• When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Write
  • Shoes
  • Choosing

• Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Freedom
  • Choosing
  • Impossibility

• If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures such as the expectations of others or by our habits such as procrastination or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Learn
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Violence
  • Choosing
  • Apparatuses

• Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

  

  Edward John Carnell
  • Human Beings
  • Choosing
  • Mind Of God

• In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Vacation
  • Ourselves
  • Prop

• I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

  

  Spoken Reasons
  • Want
  • Choosing
  • Do

• I pretended to be interested in their secret undertaking, but in fact I was very sorry about it. Although the two siblings had involved me by choosing me as their confidant, it was still an experience that I could enter only as witness: on that path Lila would do great things by herself, I was excluded. But above all, how, after our intense conversations about love and poetry, could she walk me to the door, as she was doing, far more absorbed in the atmosphere of excitement around a shoe?...What did I care about shoes. I still had, in my mind's eye, the most secret stages of that affair of violated trust, passion, poetry that became a book, and it was as if she and I had read a novel together, as if we had seen, there in the back of the shop and not in the parish hall on Sunday, a dramatic film.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Experience
  • Film
  • Secret

• Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.

  

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict
  • Love
  • Bicycle
  • Selecting

• I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Attention
  • Economy
  • Loved

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

  

  Deena Kastor
  • Success
  • Run
  • Choosing

• After I have photographed the way I like to, I feel as I might if I had been making love all day, marvelous and exhausted and wanting to collapse on the floor in a heap. That's why I can't photograph just anybody, and why it's so hard to photograph people on assignment; it's like going to bed with someone not of my choosing.

  

  Eva Rubinstein
  • Collapse
  • Photographed
  • Making Love

• All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.

  

  David Paul
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Discovery

• The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

  

  Alexander Stoddart
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Choosing

• Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

  

  Betsy Landin
  • Love
  • Dreams
  • Weakness

• So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Name
  • Birth
  • Choosing

• If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

  

  George Eliot
  • Actions
  • Consequence
  • Philosopher

• All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

  

  Francine Prose
  • Writing
  • Elements
  • Another

• Each time we eat we are choosing to support a system. In our choice of agricultural production methods, we can support one which either helps our future, or one which undermines it. The same is true of our actual dietary choices we make. The healthiest diet is one rich in fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains and legumes, low in animal products. This is better for the environment, our health and of course animals. I'm a vegan because I care for animals and for the future of our planet. Additionally, a vegan diet helps to prevent and reverse a range of non-communicable diseases including heart disease, high blood pressure, cholesterol, type II diabetes. Each time we eat, we are either feeding disease, or fighting it.

  

  Elizabeth Kucinich
  • Support
  • Health
  • Choice

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