Chosen Quotes - Page 21

• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

  Charles Dickens

  Crime, Victim, Young

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.116

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

  Etgar Keret

  Pockets, Facts, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

  Voltaire

  Happy, Health, Enlightenment Thinkers

  15 Copy quote

• There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

  Steig Larsson

  Army, Opportunity, People

  4 Copy quote

• I sat there for several moments, trying to decide how best I should respond. None of the advice I'd gotten from the books or my friends really prepared me for how to handle discussions about alternative energy sources. One of the books - one I'd chosen not to finish - had a decidedly male-centric view that said women should always make men feel important on dates. I suspected that Kristin and Julia's advice right now would have been to laugh and toss my hair - and not let the discussion progress. But I just couldn't do that. "You're wrong," I said.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Men, Hair

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Thinking, Numbness

  5 Copy quote

• It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... 

  Stephenie Meyer

  Losing, Enough, Whole Family

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.224, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.

  Félix J. Palma

  Spring, Book, Silence

  6 Copy quote

• And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Ideas, Honor, Rooms

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Eye, People

  15 Copy quote

• Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tired, World, Weight

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.686, e-artnow

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Pain, Book, African American

  Mildred D. Taylor (2001). “The Land”, p.17, Penguin

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

  Rick Riordan

  Coke, Beverages, Horror

  57 Copy quote

• Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

  Lois Lowry

  Life Changing, Wish, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

  Justina Chen

  Heart, Ideas, Leaving

  4 Copy quote

• There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

  Elizabeth Wein

  Rooms, Free Will, Glory

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Important, Wanted, Knows

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.166, Delacorte Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Men, Dolphins

  4 Copy quote

• I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Blue, Everyday

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.278, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Different

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Two, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.29, Full Moon Publications

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  9 Copy quote

• Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Journey, Men, Righteous Man

  7 Copy quote

• But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Children, Men

  4 Copy quote