Quotes of Select - somelinesforyou

“ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ”

- Richard Bach

“ Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. ”

- Michael Harrington

“ You are your choices. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy. ”

- Tim Burton

“ The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Refuse the evil, and choose the good. ”

- Bible

“ To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ”

- Nigel Lawson

“ Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. ”

- James Allen

“ I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor Frankl

“ I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones. ”

- Tad Williams

“ You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Choose only one master - Nature. ”

- Rembrandt

“ The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ What God chooses for us children of men is always the best. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. ”

- Huey Newton

“ Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. ”

- Charles Eames

“ A self-made man may prefer a self-made name. ”

- Learned Hand

“ And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. ”

- Bible

“ I've had to choose my battles. ”

- Amber Frey

“ I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change. ”

- Alanis Morissette

“ The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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