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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus

May, Goal, Obstacles

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois

Love, Others, Literature

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Give, Remedy

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb

Good, Whether, Measure

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
King Solomon

Good, Rather, Name

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

Human, Saying, High

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Vernon Howard

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
Herman Melville

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
Luke Ford

God, Jesus, Son

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
Jeff Bridges

Find, Around, Choice

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein

Life, Nature, Struggle

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong

Put, Anyone, Role

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
Sidney Poitier

Work, Reflection, Values

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth

God, House, Promise

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright

Money, Spend, Building

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
Cynthia Nixon

Gay, Fact, Often

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew Carnegie

Men, Line, Stuck

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
Louis C. K.

Successful, Saying, Special

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.
Heidi Klum

Amazing, Happy, Surprise

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt

Happiness, Men, End

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
Madeleine Albright

Woman, Reason, Wanted

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Lech Walesa

Authority, Respected, Wisely

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
Sitting Bull

Great, Country, Tell

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
Julia Roberts

Life, Famous, Yourself

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Otto von Bismarck

Government, Forward, Once

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'
Cher

Religion, Problem, Makes

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.
Jonathan Davis

Learning, Night, Through

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
Clive Owen

Film, Shot, Honestly

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Good, Mother

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Lech Walesa

Feeling, Hatred, Road

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