“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.” PeopleWritingImportantChoicesGivenNationsOpinionPositionReaderPerceptionPagesPublishersColumnsEditorialsImplicit Author:Daniel Okrent
“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.” IfsAgeSpiritChoicesDoubtMastersOughtPagesNo DoubtVolumeEntry Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David Gregory's book. You may find an altogether different sort of hunger has been sated by the final page. Brilliant in its simplicity, fearless in its presentation of the truth, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger is one invitation you'll want to RSVP.” WantMayHas BeensBookDifferentChoicesReadingEnjoyHoursPerfectQuietPagesFinalsSimplicityHungerStrangerDinnerBrilliantFearlessMealsVegetablesDeliciousInvitationsPresentationSatedPerfect Strangers Author:Liz Curtis Higgs
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.” KnowsWorldFeelsWritingTryingBookCharacterStoriesSeemsMightChoicesLostToo MuchMaterialsPagesDown AndFormalOutlinesMain Characters Author:Michael Chabon
“I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.” WritingBookChoicesCan DoTalkingWrittenPagesManageLive LifeYou Can Do It Author:Alice Mattison
“Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.” IfsLongBookHandsEarthLife IsChoicesGrowsWaitingPathBrokenPagesLuckMoodOpeningCuriousHorizonCowsShelvesGreedySweetestExaltedPasturesWeighingBrowsingBallast Author:Linda Pastan
“What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.” IfsWantHandsWould BeLastsChoicesAsksWishToo MuchPagesListenersSkulls Author:Margaret Atwood
“Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms” PeopleIfsFeelsFirstsPersonsIdeasSeemsGovernmentWould BeFormChoicesIndividualProcessChurchViewsAcceptingIdentityPagesPoint Of ViewHipsMultipleTechnologicalEraseHoodWikipediaFlavourAbhorrentCulpritMultiple ChoiceWeb Page Author:Jaron Lanier
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” RealSelfShowsChoicesHonestPagesAuthenticityBeing HonestCollectionsBeing RealTrue SelfAuthentic SelfAuthentic LifeBeing Authentic Author:Brené Brown
“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288” ChoicesGrowsLossWalksMistakeFateMastersCircumstancesPagesVictimVictims Of CircumstanceEpilogues Author:Richard Paul Evans
“And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.” WorldFeelsChoicesUniverseReadingLostFeltBitsSportsGoes OnTasteKissingPagesDrinkingCoffeeDrySunlightCleaningRippleLost MyselfDry Cleaning Book:This Lullaby Source: This Lullaby