Top 1200 Chosen Path Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

. . . people use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that they want. One way they do that is to interrupt your normal way of thinking and take you by the hand and guide you down the path they want you to take. Father says they make you take a teeny-weeny step in their direction, and then they start to nudge you a little further down the path and before you know it, you're running full speed with them in a direction that you probably wouldn't have gone alone.

I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Ball culture saved my life, and many people don't understand that. But ballroom is where I found chosen and proven family.

If I'm so fortunate to be chosen, I think I'll do very well. I will do everything in my power to beat Hillary Clinton, I promise you.

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.

For me, acting is not a hobby. It is a career that I have chosen and was not willing to let go of so easily after seven years of hard work.

It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

I am extremely flattered to be chosen the 2012 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year from such an esteemed group of nominees.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

I am proud that generations of Jewish Americans have chosen to make this state their home; Georgia has been better for it.

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north?and it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.

The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.

I have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a part of this industry.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

If you ask me about my chosen colour palette for the clothes I wear myself, I'm usually one for more neutral, subtle shades.

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.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.

I feel very honoured that I've been chosen as the best player for 1992 by national coaches with so much football knowhow.

I entered a beauty contest on the insistence of my friends, and even before I knew it, I was in the finals and chosen Gladrags Super Model.

First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

You want what you can’t have. I see it in your eyes. The pain that fills your nights is because of my pack of lies. I’ve opened up the door for you to walk away. There’s a better path for you even though I want you to stay. I’ve broken the rules, I’ve veered from the path but when I met you I knew to save you was worth the wrath. Let me leave now before it’s too late. Let me leave now before you know what I am and your love becomes hate.

Bears fans... man... I could not have chosen a better place to make my first stop outside of North Carolina.

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Be free always, because of all things, freedom is best, though it is not easily won and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it.

When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.