In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other’s heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.
Singing is the form I’ve chosen to express myself. It’s the way I emote best.
A writer’s job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
In fact, I’ll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.
My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn’t practice, he wasn’t a leader, he wasn’t this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.
In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule – not London rule.
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called ‘the chosen.’
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
I never knew much about business. But I’ve been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don’t think I could have chosen a better record company.
I would say that, first of all, if you have the honor of being chosen to produce the Oscars, you usually get only one crack at it. We were the first people in sixteen years to do it three times in a row, and it was one of the most profound experiences you could ever imagine.
The Democrats and the mainstream media shouldn’t be so quick to mock White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders for suggesting that President Trump was chosen by God to lead this country.
I’ve been very lucky in the characters I’ve chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God’s truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves ‘the chosen people.’ It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.
Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.
This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.
Before you take your address, while you’re still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you’ve chosen and falling into the cup. If you don’t believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
The path we have chosen is constitutional.
I’ve chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press – I’ve never invited a huge amount of attention.
I’ve never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I’ve had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It’s just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn’t.
If people see that I’m fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they’ll click a link to find out more.
I’ve chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I’ve had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I’ve just done things I loved when I read them.
It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.
I just enjoy playing football no matter where I am chosen.
My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond – in front of you to serve my country.
In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.
I feel very ashamed to have chosen a brother like Azam Khan. Maybe it was a wrong choice for me to call him a brother and he proved in reality he is not the person he pretends to be.
I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.
Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
These designers have no reserve. They’ve chosen a path and thrown themselves onto it head first, regardless of everything. Whether or not their designs are sellable or vulgar. As long as it’s new and people talk about it. That is the truth.
I’m honored to join a very distinguished group of footballers to appear on the cover of ‘FIFA.’ Most of all, I am humbled that the fans have chosen me, and I will strive to make them proud with my performance on the pitch.
We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years of loving care to persons who may suffer from Alzheimer’s or other debilitating illnesses precisely because they are human persons, not because doing so instrumentally advances some other hidden objective.
Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the ‘best’ in your chosen field, whatever it is.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location – somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like his taste in food or hobbies or charitable work.
The desire of my heart is to be loved so fearlessly by somebody. I will not allow myself not to feel chosen every single day.
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
Everyone wants to be chosen for Up Next. You get on a billboard in Times Square and in Los Angeles! This helps get your name out there on a huge scale.
I’m a composer, music director, singer and performer. So it is a Bollywood rule that people don’t know who has sung a song and whether your voice will be chosen.
In ‘A Chosen Few,’ I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive.
I’ve been criticized for the things I chose and things I’ve chosen to do.
I’ve chosen television because of the quality of material that I’m offered, not being a writer, so I’ve turned a lot of features down.
Dancers should realise that they are really lucky. Dancing is not a job. It’s people who are chosen. And you must realise that you are chosen. Sometimes I see a performance that makes me really angry – I think, ‘Those people are lucky, and they don’t realise it.’
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can’t fight against it.
It’s my job to stretch and figure out what I’m capable of, to identify with the character I have chosen to play.
The spiritual writing of the song is where you’re chosen as a vehicle, and it comes from something up above. You don’t move; it writes itself. It’s very spooky, but that’s happened to me just a few times.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
