Best choices & chosen Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.”

Believe Humans Has Beens Important School Choices Belief Virtue Taught Highest Chosen Irony Shopping Consumerism Malls Overconsumption Supermarkets Personal Choice

Author:William Henry Willimon

“I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice –are we, in John Adams’ phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?”

Made Matter Faces Law Choices Nations Challenges Decision Steps Revolution Court Supreme Violent Chosen Phrases Disagree Supreme Court Contests Rule Of Law Court Decision Violent Revolution

Author:Al Gore

“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.”

Giving Philosophy Choices Gone Generations Groups Economic Conditions Bears Filled Salvation Chosen Brands Variety New Generation

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...”

“Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.”

Desire Choices Evil Effects Appearance Chosen Imaginary

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.”

Art Artist Choices Courses Pay Chosen Lifelong Pay The Price

Author:Sally Warner

“The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.”

World Way Humans Persons God Would Be Choices Given Human Beings Chosen Free Will Power Of Choice

Author:John Haggai

“Sometimes I'm irritated because if you're running around in a game, and you're half-naked in a game, this is a choice that I may not have personally chosen to look like this to somebody I'm talking to in a game world, but I am.”

Ifs World Looks May Sometimes Running Choices Games Half Talking Chosen Naked Irritated

Author:Brenda Romero

“The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.”

World Real Choices Decision Revolution Hunger Chosen

Book:The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

“The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.”

Source: Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth

“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.”

Feels Made Moments Film Choices Sound Novel Dog Reader Photography Sentences Chosen That Moment Capture Barking Dogs

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.”

People Ifs Want Kind Persons I Can Ideas Choices Force Decision Possibility Assuming Chosen Activist

Author:Gloria Steinem

“You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.”

Men Seems Jobs Choices Simple Chosen Neighborhood True Life

Author:Jessamyn West

“We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.”

Humans Running Moving Choices Nations Events Chosen Triumph Wheels Inevitability

Author:George W. Bush

“You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.”

Want Choices Painting Essence What You Want Chosen Arbitrary Discernment Elimination

Book:Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

Source: Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

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