Chosen Quotes - Page 3

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Vision, Glimpse, World

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• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Mean, Men, Desire

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

  Sidney Poitier

  Reflection, Use, Values

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• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Player, Ideas

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• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Competition, Weapons

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• I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

  Aaron Neville

  Awards, Cardinals, Heard

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• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

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• Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

  David Sarnoff

  Travel, Adventure, Glory

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• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  Ralph Marston

  Faith, Patience, Acceptance

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• I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Stories, Way

  "Interview", Volume 26, (p. 49), 1996.

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• Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friends, True Friend, Book

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• I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

  Martin Short

  Life, Stress, Party

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• I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Games, Nfl

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• As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

  John Flavel

  God, Religious, Firsts

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• The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

  Luke Ford

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Native American, Sitting

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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

  Edward Hoagland

  People, Texan

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

  Elia Kazan

  Play, Conviction, Made

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

  Dorothy Fields

  Moving, Should Have, Milieu

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• The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

  Rod Parsley

  Issues, Social, Court

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• From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

  Robert Nozick

  Inspirational

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

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• Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

  Barbara Kruger

  Crazy, Insanity, Looks

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