‘... I dearly wished I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.’ (ISWM)
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... the world is full of omens, and you picked the ones you liked. (ISWM)
‘... I get the horrible feeling that we live in a big ever-repeating circle where we do things because it is predicted that we will do things - all effect and no cause.’ (DSS)
‘Spoons are not important at this point!’ (NW)
What was the worst that could happen?
So many things, he thought as he set out again, that it would be hard to decide which one was the worst. (TT) You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was 'But we've always done it this way.' A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? (FE)
Everything was a test. Everything was a competition. Life put them in front of you every day. You watched yourself all the time. You had to make choices. You never got told which ones were right. Oh, some of the priests said you got given marks afterwards but what was the point of that? (CJ)
You had to choose. You might be right, you might be wrong but you had to choose. Knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you were deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there was no right anywhere. And always, always you did it by yourself. You were the one there, on the edge, watching and listening. (CJ)
Masklin realized he was standing at one of those points where History takes a deep breath and decides what to do next. (Wings)
'Whose side are they on?' Said Brocando.
'Sides? Their own, I suppose, just like everyone else.' (CP) To history, choices are merely directions. (J)
... history was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started to follow bad orders. (J)
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. (GO)
'You have got a choice. You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines ... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.' (Ma)
'.... there's big crimes and little crimes. Sometimes the little crimes look big and the big crimes you can hardly see, but the crucial thing is to decide which is which.' (MA)
The problem with Destiny, of course, is that she is often not careful where she puts her finger. (MA)
‘You may want to hold on to your job, but will you ever be able to let it go?’ (M)
“Truly, the world is the mollusc of your choice …” (P)
“We’re witches, Tiffany. We has the power for a reason. We just ‘as to make sure as it’s the right reason …” (SC)
… if a witch started thinking of anyone as “just” anything that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels and a too-small stove …. (SC)
A witch is always on the edge, between the light and the dark, good and bad, making choices every day, judging all the time. It was what made her human. (SC)
His voice was strange, Jackson thought as he tried to size up this man, a voice which laid down words as a poker player laid down card, with finality and decision. He seemed slow rather than fast, but relentless. As hard to stop, once he came rolling at you, as an oncoming tank. (LW)
... one wrong word from him would send shock-waves around the cavern and the result, whatever it was, would be his fault. Such is the fate of those who work only for the propagation of peace over warfare .... (RS)
‘I thought you told me a dimocracy was where people did what they wanted to do,’ she said.
‘It’s a democracy,’ I said. ‘And it’s fine for people to do what they want to do, provided they do what’s right.’ (BOS) ‘What are we going to do, commander?’
And Vimes blinked and said, ‘Everything!’ (Sn) |
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