The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.
Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.
Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.
If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!
Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.
There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.
Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.
When one chooses a life as a public personality they give up certain levels of privacy but in one's home and intimate moments everyone should be protected.
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.
The mission of Border Patrol agents to protect the United States from harm is being impeded by a crisis Congress has the ability to fix, but as usual, chooses not to.
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
I defend a woman's right to cover her hair if she chooses, but the face is central to human interaction, and so the ideologues who promote its covering are simply misogynists.
I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.
It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again
Fate chooses your relations,
you choose your friends.
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
My interest is to do interesting lead parts, to tell different stories and to surprise the audience. But as they say in Mumbai, everything is pre-written and it chooses you.
You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.
What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
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