#choose

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

#choose #down #exact #full #genius

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. ↗

— Renata Adler

#clearly #community #consensus #defines #life

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#calves #choose #only #own #stupidest

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#keep #leave #love #persons #promises

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#bad #character #choose #defines #gift

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#calculations #choose #driven #face #global

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#anyone #arts #because #business #chooses

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ↗

— Richard Bach

#choose #drawn #events #every #life

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#between #choose #creator #define #group

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential