Chosen Quotes - Page 5

• I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Israel, People

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• I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Havens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Praying, Doing Good

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.155, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Evil, Choices, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.238

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• In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Children, Taken

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.152, Applewood Books

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• If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

  Rumi

  Ignorance, Leader, Darkness

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• If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

  Earl Nightingale

  Years, Experts, Each Day

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• Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wells, Ifs

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• The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

  Blaise Pascal

  Politics, Captains, Ships

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• The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

  Arthur Helps

  Leadership, Men, Causes

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

  Joshua Reynolds

  Wall, Wells, Collections

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• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

  Neil Armstrong

  Roles, Firsts, Flight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dancing, Would Be, Want

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Literature, Love You

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• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Love, Funny, Girl

  Quoted in Helen Handley, The Lover's Quotation Book (1986)

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• War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Giving

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• A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

  Robert Graves

  Science, Medicine, May

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• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

  Minor White

  Photography, Long, Matter

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• I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Stress, Good Things, Approach

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.26, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

  Ava DuVernay

  Artist, People, Filmmaker

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Men

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• Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

  Jim DeMint

  Military, War, Marine

  "Reid’s move delayed rap on Berkeley". thehill.com. February 11, 2008.

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• Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Healing

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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