We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.
I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
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.
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me. ' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me. . . I've done the parts I wanted to do.
If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.
The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.
True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.
Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. . . . I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.