#choose

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#cannot #choose #completely #consequently #devoid

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce. ↗

— Lou Barletta

#choose #enforce #going #laws #mayors

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#conversation #exemplary #inward #justified #men

I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick... ↗

— Kami Garcia

#chooses #leads-to #road #start #beauty

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind. ↗

— Katherine Marsh

#fate #past-and-future #life

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

#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#believe #children #choose #does #generation

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

— Jeff Tweedy

#anyone #audience #becomes #chooses #collaborator

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#blood #characters #choose #family #formed

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#fell #i #into #less #more