I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters
I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.
We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom.
Because a real kiss, a kiss that two real people choose to give each other - it's something that can't be filmed or photographed or drawn, or even described with words. Because a kiss isn't what it looks like or how it feels. A real kiss happens down deep inside of two hearts at the same time. It's hidden away. A real kiss is invisible.
We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors. . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.
I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Most countries choose to have government run the economy.
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.