#chosen

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#code-name-verity #freedom #freedom-of-choice #freedom

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. ↗

— Minor White

#chosen #enough #film #how #long

Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier." "Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#della #heartbreak #love #design

She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't just her PJs on the bed anymore. Lucas, eyes wide, sat on the foot of her bed, about four feet from where she stood completely naked. She squealed. He laughed. She dashed for the towel. Once she had it around her, she glared from a still grinning Lucas to the door. "I'm killing Della!" He laughed again. "I'm afraid I might have to protect her for this one. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#chosen-at-nightfall #fun #kylie #lucas #naked

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#night

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. ↗

— Guy Debord

#been #between #choose #chosen #disposal

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#building #chosen #first #followed #forced

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

— Cher

#i #like #makes #ones #problem

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#dim #fallen #girl #light #love

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. ↗

— Karl Urban

#almost #another #before #chosen #coming