Quotes with choose

Quotes 201 till 220 of 245.

  • Charles Baudelaire We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • John Henry Newman We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Gloria Steinem We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Kofi Annan We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
    We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • Beth Brooke What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice.
    History of civilization
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Ben Kingsley When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Napoleon When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ben Schwartz When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Ben Nelson When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Edmund Burke When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bell Hooks When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Max Lerner When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Umberto Eco When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 206
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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