3,997 Quotes About Choices



  • Author Diana Gabaldon
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    Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim.

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  • Author Edward Gibbon
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    The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

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  • Author Edgar Guest
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    You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

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  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert
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    Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

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  • Author Ellen Goodman
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    We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

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