I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [. . by how they choose to react to it. ]
The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.
Happiness is what you choose to remember.
To choose not to choose is still to act.
I am mad - but I choose this madness.
All paths are present, always. . . and we can but choose among them.
When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.
No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.
We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.