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Desmond Tutu quote: "To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen..."
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo. Desmond Tutu
Rumi quote: "I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am..."
I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. Rumi
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. Douglas William Jerrold
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. Yet, as she stood there, she knew that years later she would be haunted by the sorrow in the face of that starveling child and that she would wish bitterly... Betty Smith
She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience. Stefan Zweig
Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through—and very good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen—I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good... Jane Austen
Charles Dickens quote: "Crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered..."
Crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest amd fairest are too often its chosen victims. Charles Dickens
They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart. William Butler Yeats
I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office Jorge Amado
J. K. Rowling quote: "You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen..."
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain'? 'The Boy Who Scored? whatever they call you these days. J. K. Rowling
Davy Crockett quote: "Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to..."
Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. Davy Crockett
Mason Cooley quote: "Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that..."
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. Mason Cooley
J. K. Rowling quote: "Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who? well? something of that sort.."
Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who? well? something of that sort.. J. K. Rowling
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race. Jacques Barzun
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table isno mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions. Richard Bach

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