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What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. — Milan Kundera

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not. — Louis C.K.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not! — Raymond Smullyan

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making — Wendell Berry

I must admit, you're not the chosen one I would have chosen. — Terry Pratchett

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there. — John Hench

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play. — Feist

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another. — C.S. Lewis

I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you.
- George Washington Carver — Marilyn Nelson

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman. — Anais Nin

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen. — Martha Graham

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician. — Meshell Ndegeocello

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so. — Michelle Sagara West

Secrets of religion have I not unravelled, Nor have I fathomed Eve and Adam. Neither still nor moving on, I have not chosen my own name! — Various

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing. — George W. S. Trow

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. — Alice Borchardt

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down. — Augustin Matata Ponyo

Do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation. — Vincent De Paul

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth

Christ is to be cherished, not just chosen. — John Piper

Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. — Eckhart Tolle

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient. — Willie Aames

Israel was God's chosen people, the nation whose God was the Lord. This unique status has not passed to America or to any other earthly nation. — Michael Babcock

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. — Martha Graham

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident. — Seth Godin

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them! — Kandathil Sebastian

What He has chosen not to reveal to me is inconsequential when compared to what He has promised me. — Angie Smith

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. — Jacqueline Carey

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited. — Anna Friel

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. — Nina Guilbeau

I had chosen to be an adult and I didn't want any charity - not even from my parents. This was one thing I was determined about. — Preeti Shenoy

-I'm not sure it isn't going to kill me. But it is the death I would have chosen- if I'd known about it till now. — C.S. Lewis

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

the insane are simply people who have chosen not to participate in the world in the same manner as the majority, — Mindy McGinnis

Detention, Saturday night, my office," said Snape. "I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter . . . not even 'the Chosen One.' — J.K. Rowling

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. — David Sarnoff

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it. — Mother Teresa

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility. — David Cottrell

I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization. — Richard Dawkins

Spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate goal for all of humanity, not just a chosen few. Be helpful, not hurtful — L.J. Vanier

Experts chosen to represent a specific point of view are cheerleaders, not scientists. And people who rely on them are denialists. — Michael Specter

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century. — Peter Lindbergh

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before. — Wayne W. Dyer

She had not even chosen to be a human being. — Jostein Gaarder

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. — Kristin Armstrong

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. — Oswald Chambers

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy. — Jessica Lange

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.
If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen. — Toba Beta

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children. — Paul A. Offit

Part of learning to count my blessings is accepting that many of them I would not have chosen if — Janette Oke

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us. — John Lewis

Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. — Anne Lamott

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into. — Jamie Johnson

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in. — Megan Whalen Turner

If i had to do it all over again, I would not have chosen this life. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

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

I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress. — Gloria Negrete McLeod

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious. — Mike May

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. — Raul Castro

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said ... Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough? — David Gemmell

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it. — Juliette Binoche

I am a survivor. I live beyond the wall. I give shelter to those that need it. I am not chosen but I choose to live. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. Isaiah 41:9-10 — Beth Moore

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. — Otto Von Bismarck

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But of those whom He has chosen, whom He has purchased to Himself, He says what He says not of others - "my people." In — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back. — Stephen R. Donaldson

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints. — Richard Tyler

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you — Luke Wood

By not choosing, you have already chosen. Don't let it be so. — Trina M. Lee

Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he'd chosen to be happy — Donna Tartt

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. — Blaise Pascal

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to thank everyone out there who has chosen not to drive after they have had something to drink. — Audrey Kishline

That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life. — Robin Hobb

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children. — Ronald Reagan

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen. — Luther Allison

We did not receive this destiny by ourselves, God has chosen it for us — Sunday Adelaja

You're not Forsaken. You're Chosen for Purpose. — Vanessa Richardson

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now. — Wayne Dyer

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. — Alice Dreger

You are an amazing woman. I could not have chosen a better place to let my heart rest than in your hands. — C.C. Wood

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Plainly I was not interested, being chosen but not chooser. — Morrissey

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you. — Georgina Chapman

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us. — Stephen Covey

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year. — John Adams

Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain. — David L. Conroy

Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise. — Gary Patton

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. — Maurice Chevalier

We are not set apart to rule, but chosen and set apart to serve. — Theodore M. Burton

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject. — Richard Dawkins

We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus. — Elizabeth George Speare

We have not chosen Him first - but He has chosen us. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have. — Anthony Marais