#chosen

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#go #lawmakers #must #once #organize

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#chosen #depressed #disorder #episodes #every

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#because #between #chosen #covenant #different

Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey outloud?' 'Yes, Grandma, you did.' She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. 'Good. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#chosen #funny-things-grandparents-say #house-of-night #turd-monkey #funny

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen. ↗

— Luther Allison

#had #i #qualifications

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#being happy #chosen #dark #dark side #enough

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. ↗

— Jack Levine

#direction #disappointment #expectations #high #high expectations

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#catholic #charity #children #chosen #compassion

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#chosen #crime #dark #deliberately #expressed

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#chosen #decisive #degree #determining #factor