Alastair Reynolds Quotes
There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.
Alastair Reynolds
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
Hamilton Jordan
In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
Oliver North
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
Natalie Dormer
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen
'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
Kate Winslet
I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
Laura Marling
People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.
Maggie Cheung
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
Martha Beck
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us, to be posted in the schools.
Emil Cioran
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley
Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
Ernest Rutherford
There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.
Alastair Reynolds
