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Choosing Quotes (page 58)

Graham Greene quote: "He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had..."
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. Graham Greene
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. Orson Scott Card
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us. Paulo Coelho
E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back? HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom! ~Ericsson; Hilary Craven Agatha Christie
David Byrne quote: "I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I..."
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? David Byrne
Terry Prachett quote: "When in doubt, choose to live."
When in doubt, choose to live. Terry Prachett
Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am nothing; I call myself Count Nothing, the senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Will I after my death? No. What am I? A little dust surrounding an organism. What do I have to do on this earth? I have the choice of pain or pleasure. Where will pain lead me? To nothing. But I will have suffered. Where will pleasure lead me? To nothing. But I will have enjoyed. My choice... Victor Hugo
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see. That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me. John Donne
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. Jane Jacobs
What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. Haruki Murakami
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss. Isaiah Berlin
Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. Richard Bach
Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods like slashing their wrist or taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Paulo Coelho
George R. R. Martin quote: "She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments..."
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. George R. R. Martin

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