Chosen Quotes - Page 28

• If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Lovers, Form

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.190

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• When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.

  John Berger

  Mean, Opportunity, Challenges

  John Berger (2011). “Sense of Sight”, p.203, Vintage

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• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Israel, Land

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Feet, Numbers

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• Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

  John Tillotson

  Wickedness, Kind, Distraction

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.184

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• Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Yield, Self, Play

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• When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Generosity, Forgiving, Lenses

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

  Winslow Homer

  Giving, Joy, Hours

  1895 Letter to his brother, Charles, 23 Feb.

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• Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

  Jack White

  Moving, Wind, Magic

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• The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

  Harry Reid

  Real, Justice, Perspective

  "Bush Picks Miers for Supreme Court". www.foxnews.com. October 04, 2005.

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• Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spiritual, Artist, Vanity

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• My colors are logically chosen.

  Mark Kostabi

  Color

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• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

  Bayard Taylor

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Excellence

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• Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Children, Light

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "Heinrich Heine" (1865)

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Team, Creativity

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• Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, White Man

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110, 1863.

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• Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

  Stella Adler

  Hurt, Pain, Blood

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.24, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Leadership, Right Now

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• And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Damn, Our Lives

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• The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Men, Enabling

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• Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Blessing, People

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• Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Business, Successful

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• If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Men, Office

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

  Robert E. Howard

  Editors, Ideas, Age

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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