It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
You cannot choose your opponents.
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can’t choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.
By the time I reached high school my father’s grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
Avoiding the phrase ‘I don’t have time…’, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Our best hope in meeting the many challenges that Brexit brings for us is being willing to be open-minded about the options we may choose to pursue.
I pay all my own bills… I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
I choose to fight for the future, to seize the high ground and retake the Shining City on a Hill.
In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.
It’s not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that’s great.
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
I’d never choose to turn the clock back.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
If you’re a young person who wants to become an actor, it’s really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you’ve even said a word!
If I were not French I would choose to be – Scotch.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.
While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
It’s a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn’t write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they’re attractive.
You don’t want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I’d probably choose to rap.
My clients can choose their own colours and fabrics to have something unique in their wardrobes.
We don’t perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can’t choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God’s kindnesses to our remembrance.
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
Everybody has will – you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush’s belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you.
At this point, I’m happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I’m passionate about.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
I can’t control what’s fair and unfair. I can’t control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.
What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion – how they choose to package that is their prerogative.
Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don’t choose this.
I’m a TV junkie, so it’s hard to choose just one. Currently I’m a slave to ‘Black Sails,’ ‘Vikings,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Mindy Project.’
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn’t be gay. I’ve been attracted mostly to ‘she’s’ but I’ve been with many people and I’m open to love wherever it can be found.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
I definitely have found a balance. I’ve had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
I am ambitious to do more than what has been offered me. I want to be the best in whatever career I choose and I don’t think I can get there as an actor.
There’s pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!
