A Quote by Frederick Lenz

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
American - Author
February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

John Irving

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Hannah Arendt

You just pick up a little bit of whatever the ones you think are appropriate, and you try and, you know, combine them. And then you bring in other people that are great for the things that you're not so good at.

Mark Ronson

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Jean de la Bruyere

A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

Rasheed Wallace

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

Pilou Asbaek

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot

The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.

Michael Sandel

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Helen Simonson

If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.

T. E. Lawrence

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

Darren Shahlavi

I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.

Gregg Popovich

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Vikram Seth

When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

Noemie Lenoir

Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.