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“I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.”

Knows Book Silence Spring Shadow Flow Convinced Newspapers Invisible Chosen Our Time

Author:Félix J. Palma

“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”

Ideas Wanted Rooms Honor Glory Chosen Free Will Envied Glory And Honor

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

World Bears Weight Tired Chosen

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.”

Book Use Pain Remember Used Language Wish Periods My Family Including Painful Refuse Chosen African American Bans Banned Books

Book:The Land

Source: The Land

“Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!”

Horror Chosen Diets Coke Athena Beverages Mark Of Athena Diet Coke

Author:Rick Riordan

“Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.”

Want Sometimes Asks Wish Chosen Life Changing Giver Predictable Orderly Painless

Book:The Giver

Source: The Giver

“Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.”

Made Fall Decision Seeing Balance Instinct Edges Committed Chosen Knives Our Relationship Impossibility Twilight Book

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.”

Heart Ideas Hours Changed Abuse Leaving Chosen No Idea Tone Damage Bombs Maximum Dubious Emotional Wounds

Author:Justina Chen

“There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”

Rooms Glory Chosen Free Will Honour Glory And Honor

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that.”

Knows Important Wanted Chosen

Book:Bloodfever: Fever Series

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it.”

Ifs Men Feels Horror Red Edges Chosen Warrior Diets Silver Panic Retreat Bugs Coke Dolphins Soda Beverages Diet Coke

Author:Rick Riordan

“I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.”

Ifs Way Wanted Spiritual Spirituality Fronts Enlightenment India Blue Everyday Chosen Everyday Life Collars Blue Collar Spiritual Enlightenment

Book:Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.”

May Ideas Different Stuff Talking Millions Poet Percent Hundred Chosen Not Sure Abstract Different Meanings

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

Mind Stills Two Evil Fate Chosen Great Minds Two Evils

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

“I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end”

Thinking Heart Ends Able Given My Own Enemy Worst My Heart Expectations Deserve Chosen Candidates Given Up Worst Enemy My Own Worst Enemy

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.”

Men Hard Given Easy Lord Path Journey Rewards Chosen Supposed To Be Righteous Righteous Man Hard Journey

Author:Alexandra Adornetto

“But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.”

Thinking Men Children Made Self Mother Choices Names Rooms Wife Imagine Ready Relation Chosen Familiar Your Freedom

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”

Knows Different Ends Feelings Would Be Love Is Crazy Disease Driven Chosen Cures Better Off Wrong Things Escaping Different Roads Maybe Love

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.”

Said Light Night Girl Father Sides Lines Mines Cold Quiet Husband Fingers Warm Chosen Weary Woven

Book:Sever

Source: Sever

“I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.”

Author:Lauren Oliver

“We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.”

Choices Steps Havens Chosen Steps Forward Requiem

Author:Lauren Oliver

“When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.”

World Battle Activity Ego Chosen Celestine Prophecy

Book:The celestine prophecy: an adventure

Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure

“He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.”

Pain Embrace Heal Intense Chosen Hold Me

Book:A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

Source: A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

“It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a member of a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to these infidels—and flying a plane into a building is only a matter of being asked to do it.”

People Men Believe Children Matter Culture Evil Belief Realizing Building Members Eternity Delight Flying Chosen Planes Your Children Unimaginable Infidel

Author:Sam Harris

“They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”

Lying Choices Fiction Known Steps Havens Chosen Pretending Steps Forward Requiem

Author:Lauren Oliver

“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”

Way Chosen One Way

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Not everyone in the world is alike. And some of us are a lot more different than others. Some of us were born like this, some of us were changed. But no matter how this happened to you, if you are here it is because this is your destiny. It was chosen for you.”

Ifs World Different Matter Born Destiny Happened Changed Chosen Your Destiny

Author:C.C. Hunter

“Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.”

I Can Seems Would Be Used Judging Lovers Rose Chosen

Book:The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

“And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was something you developed early -- and even Qhuinn, who was the object of the protective instinct the Chosen was rocking, wouldn't have dared touch her.”

Ifs Kind Wanted Risk Objects Female Instinct Miles Chosen Fighter Accurate Protective Unwilling Assessment

Book:Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”

Knows Hands Given Known Fool Claims Raised Chosen Folly Palms Seals Wrists

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.”

Light Walks Path Walking Chosen Chosen Path

Author:Paulo Coelho

“He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”

Born Baby Politician Chosen

Author:Kate Atkinson

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”

Trying Humans War Remember Race Military Victory Defeat Chosen Human Race Significance

Book:Stoner: A Novel

Source: Stoner: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Choices Decision Return Chosen Crossroads

Book:Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel

Source: Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel

“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”

World Wise Weak Foolish Chosen

Book:A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

Source: A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

“Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.”

Should Different Reason Wanted Guy Three Chosen Gansey Friendless

Book:The Raven Boys

Source: The Raven Boys

“I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.”

Source: Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life

“There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.”

“The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.”

Hands Difficult Dance Appearance Aids Chosen Ease Height Excess Gymnastics Feats Degenerates

Book:My theatre life

Source: My theatre life

“Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.”

Looks Mean Energy Dark Moral Issues Forgiveness Forgiving Sticks Chosen You Choose Lenses Baggage Sunglasses Moral Issues

Author:Gary Zukav

“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.”

Certain Force History Eternal Deny Chosen Certainty Crush

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.”

Needs Causes History Argument Chosen

Author:Romain Rolland

“We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.”

Turns Women Path Feminist Chosen Empowering Women Empowerment Womens Rights Equal Rights Empowering Women Empowered Women Women Equality

Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune”

“One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.”

People World Life Years Motivational Three Hours Learning Study Five Fields Authority Seven Chosen Five Years Three Years Seven Years One Hour

Author:Earl Nightingale

“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”

Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell

“Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.”

People Feels Made Music Conditions Jazz Musical Chosen Feel Good Spite Jazz Music

Author:Johnny Griffin

“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”

World Looks Faith Accepting Acceptance Keys Patience Chosen Have Faith Faith In Yourself Having Patience Great Faith Patience And Perseverance Great Patience Have Faith In Yourself Patience Virtue Patience Is A Virtue Faith And Patience

Author:Ralph Marston

“Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.”

“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”

Men Trying Country Character Suffering Politics Freedom Liberty Virtue Wise Influence Honesty Trust Integrity Office Chosen Virtuous Truest Moral Ethics American Constitution

Author:Samuel Adams