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
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
Laura Linney
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
The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Barack Obama
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.
Benjamin Cardozo
How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?
Pete Gallego
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
W. Edwards Deming
The mind, once stretched by an idea, never returns to its original dimension.
Ben Carson
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
Origen
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
