A good general chooses his battlefield.
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last. " The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.
One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.
. . . what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out. (pg. 146-147)
You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.