Chooses Quotes

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

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

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.