Chooses Quotations

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug. Instead, we are supposed to rely on the FDA's judgment and be grateful. But can the FDA really make a choice that is appropriate for everyone? Of course not.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

Whether OPEC chooses to make public the size of any output cut ahead of the ministerial meeting Nov. 14 is uncertain, ... But it may well choose to do so if prices remain weak.

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

This provides the using department the chance to put the equipment to use with real patients and see if it is what they need. There is no cost for this type of evaluation, other than, with certain equipment, the return freight cost if the hospital chooses not to purchase.

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!

She is a star by virtue of her passion. A Hollywood celebrity might choose roles that enhance their image, but Isabelle Huppert chooses roles that make her vulnerable.

Nobody pushes Sonja around. And she's not just a survivor; she chooses to claim her power with real grace.

I don't know that anyone ever gets used to having to go to court. We would prefer that differences would be settled other than in the courtroom. I'm not implying by any means that should happen in this case. We had indicated early on that we did not think this action had merit in our view. But if another party chooses to take legal action, you're forced whether you wanted to or not to respond to the legal process and that's what we've done here.

I am saying that if somebody sees the ad in TML (the Texas Municipal League's official publication) and chooses to apply now and they are worth considering, we will certainly do that,

Caterpillar is a powerful symbol of this process. It dominates its field. It is one of America's largest exporters, and it is very profitable. If there ever was a company that could bring back the social contract of the mid-20th century, it is Caterpillar. But it chooses not to.

Because of the sugar, no carbonated beverage, no soda can be sold to the kids. If the school chooses to have a soda machine, they can do that as long as the kids don't have access to it 30 minutes before the school day and 30 minutes after the school day.

I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,

I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a direct positive impact on whatever city is chosen, ... We have about 340,000 people in Butler County. Can you imagine what kind of forces we can rally if we all get together?

If Bush chooses a nominee whose only intention is to scale back the rights we have fought decades to win, we are prepared for a battle royal. Bring it on.

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

If a patron chooses to purchase tickets through a third party, they do so at their own risk.

If a country chooses not to ratify Cafta and open its markets to U.S. goods and services, it should not automatically assume that Congress would continue to provide it preferential one-way access into the U.S. market.

If a consumer chooses to rely on the 'free' advice of a salesperson, then they should expect to be sold. However, while the mortgage practitioner is providing these advisory services the sales hat is removed. At that point they are acting solely on behalf of the homeowner as a true fiduciary mortgage advisor.

If the county chooses to stay with the status quo, the new jail needs to be about 25 percent bigger. It is important to look at this seriously because interventions are always cheaper than incarceration.

If the canal chooses not to expand, trade will continue to flow and go elsewhere.

If the Fed chooses to do something less than that (half-percentage point), then you're going to have this major disappointment in the financial markets.

If the individual chooses not to report on the return the government doesn't often find out about it,

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

He's had a great career there. He's earned the right to make a decision of whether to stay or leave. I'm not privy to what his thought process is. He's a great player and if he chooses not to go back, then we certainly would have some interest.

He will be successful in whatever academic discipline he chooses to pursue.

He who chooses to be a master never does just enough to get by; nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?'

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

He could be a principal anywhere in the system, but he chooses not to. He's happy where he is. He's found his niche, and that's how he's going to contribute back to Erwin, where he's been his whole career.

I think you'll see a more subdued governor. He'll be someone who chooses his words more carefully and who sweats the details with more rigor.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

I was watching Wayne Rooney before the game, he is like a dog on a lead at the minute, we can let him off on Wednesday if the manager chooses to pick him.

Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.

Parents should not assume the role of a short-order cook, ... That is, if a child chooses not to eat what's offered, it's not up to the parent to offer them something else.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

My theory is God is not going to let me die that way. He's made it perfectly clear to me he's got bigger plans for me and that's not going to be the way he chooses to take me.

I think one big factor is testing and when a team chooses to test. We have been saving our test sessions for the final ten. We have three more tests coming up.its hard to know why you go from dominating to running tenth. But we have seen it a lot this year. Teams get on a hot streak and then people catch up.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

It hasn't been raised. It's a commitment to raise the funds in the event the board chooses to go forward with it. This is a very big investment.

The artist chooses his subject; that is his mode of praising.

That would mean that taxes would be at the highest level in 50 years, ... create dozens of new government programs running Washington, and it chooses bigger government instead of smaller government.

I would like to ask the council to respect my recommendations, ... If the council chooses to do otherwise, I'd like to go on record saying I disagree.

Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.

Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

who chooses our path of destiny? is it Mr Chance or Mr Fate? Or do we merely squander time then realise it's too late?

We hope that whoever the administration chooses to succeed him will be given the tools needed to really do the job.

The decision to declare a disaster rests solely with the president. The reasons he chooses are his and his alone.

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

To think I was foolish enough to believe I lived in America and there were these things called the First Amendment and freedom of the press. If my unpublished communications aren't safe from government eyes, then the tools of every business reporter in this country become fair game for any company that doesn't like scrutiny and chooses to play the 'conspiracy' card.

Under the Railway Labor Act, it is legal for us to strike, and we will fight it in a court of law, if the company chooses to contest that.

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.

The good thing about Amanda is she might get a little taller, and she'll definitely going to get stronger and faster. And that's going to allow her to do a lot of things on the court. She's just going to become - what I think is one of the premier players, if she chooses to - one of the premier players in Southeast Missouri.

'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

We will argue that, at a time of reproductive freedom for women, fatherhood must be more than a matter of DNA. A man must choose to be a father in the same way that a woman chooses to be a mother.

We fully intend to do so, unless the company chooses to come and talk to us. The ball is in their court, so to speak.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

What those Social Security cash flows are being used to do today is to pay down federal debt. If the government chooses to not use those trust fund dollars, if they do end up with a shortfall, then what they'll do is go into the public market, and sell debt to raise cash, and use the Social Security money to pay off other debt.

When a major corporation like Intel chooses to relocate, the other corporations will follow.

We do not have to live in an America that accepts poverty as a fact of life or chooses to ignore it.

We didn't pick up Gus for his brains. He's on this team because of his arm. How he chooses to celebrate is his business. He can butt heads with a brick wall as far as I'm concerned, as long as his right arm remains healthy.

There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family chooses not to believe that, that's just how families operate.

The work he did on 'Murder Book' was visually stunning. He sees things in a different way, a more artistic and original way, in everything from the camera angles he chooses to the way scenes are lit. It feels unique and very distinctive.

seems so basic, but unless you require it, there will be that small minority that chooses not to for whatever reason.

During the course of the drive, he sexually assaults her by attempting to touch her inappropriately. She does kind of keep pushing him away and expressing that she's not interested, but he does keep touching her. He does let her out at the destination that she chooses when they come into the Annandale area.

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

Dean was considered by his peers to be one of the better general managers in the league. We think he can be a huge asset for us. A person of his background and talents, if he so chooses will be back in the NHL as a manager but at this stage we are very happy to have an addition like him to our staff.

any time he chooses to take advantage of it.

As of now we can salmon fish inside of three miles, but if the commission chooses to shut down state waters to conform with the federal government at its April 6-7 meeting, we could lose that, too.

This is a pleasant and unexpected surprise. I am honored to receive these two awards. Many patients and clients encouraged my sharing easy and effective self-help therapy techniques. My mission continues sharing knowledge of natural therapies for anyone who chooses better and safer natural health.

This is very exciting, ... It shows that when the public pays attention and chooses to invest resources in smoking prevention, those efforts pay off -- not only in decreased use of tobacco, but in decreased disease.

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

It's just not the way that this administration chooses to do business.

It's unfortunate but if Prince Charles chooses to buy made-to-measure suits - or even factory-made suits - that's up to him.

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

Economics was one reason we decided to sanction again. For the most part our cars have pretty much stayed IMCA legal but some of the stuff here was getting pricey. The change in the claim rule to include the swap option was another reason. The driver getting claimed will still go home with a motor if he chooses to.

Everyone I've ever talked to who has played with Josh Beckett says no one likes him. And that's why. There's no reason for him to say anything. He chooses to, and people don't like him for it.

Everyone feels a sense of ownership in creating a Lynn Shelton movie. Lynn chooses amazing people - including the crew. Every person there is committed to making the film the best it can be.

It's important in terms of how he chooses to express his written opinion.