Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte

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

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Brigham Young

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
Marilyn vos Savant

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek