#chosen

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

#did #i #issue #just #just be

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#chosen #enjoyable #few #friends #good

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! ↗

— Joseph Addison

#chosen #country #curse #greatness #heaven

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#attempt #been #brick #building #celebration

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

#arrive #chosen #desire #different #different means

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it. ↗

— Eric Bana

#cycling #exercise #i #just #love

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#bags #beaver #buffalo #chosen #coats

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

#christians #god #grafted #guests #house

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

#chosen #deal #feel #freak #get

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

#course #forward #go #government #left