Chose Quotes

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. (Steve Jobs)
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. View quote
Marcel Proust
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be. View quote
Graham Brown
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude? View quote
Paulo Coelho
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. View quote
Gene Simmons
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life. (Martha Graham)
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. View quote
Manuel Puig
Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be. View quote
Paul Arden
It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this - this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life. View quote
Aron Ralston
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. View quote
Dean Karnazes
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. View quote
Ed Harris
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference. View quote
Christopher Darden
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. View quote
Cathy Freeman
The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself. (Jessica Savitch)
I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar. View quote
Trevor Dunn
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. View quote
William Petersen
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. View quote
Daniel Tammet
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. View quote
George Soros