Ted Chiang book Stories of Your Life and Others
Story of Your Life; first appeared in Starlight 2, 1998.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
When asked about playing in the United States http://www.espn.in/football/soccer-transfers/story/2880702/zlatan-ibrahimovic-has-made-choice-amid-manchester-united-talk <br class="br">Attributed
Ted Chiang book Stories of Your Life and Others
Story of Your Life; first appeared in Starlight 2, 1998.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness
Source: Heart of Darkness
“I didn’t have any choice... What choice did I have? He’s the president.”
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
Source: Quoted in Colin Powell Was a Nice Man Who Helped Destroy Iraq, Peter Maass, https://theintercept.com/2021/10/18/colin-powell-dead-iraq/ The Intercept, (October 18, 2021)
“I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes…”
Agatha Christie book Death Comes as the End
With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.
Death Comes as the End (1945)
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 48)
Ursula Goodenough book The Sacred Depths of Nature
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 139
Context: For me, and probably for all of us, the concept of a personal, interested god can be appealing, often deeply so. In times of sorrow or despair, I often wonder what it would be like to be able to pray to God or Allah or Jehovah or Mary and believe that I was heard, believe that my petition might be answered. When I sing the hymns of faith in Jesus' love, I am drawn to their intimacy, their allure, their poetry. But in the end, such faith is simply not available to me. I can’t do it. I lack the resources to render my capacity for love and my need to be loved to supernatural Beings. And so I have no choice but to pour these capacities and needs into earthly relationships, fragile and mortal and difficult as they often are.
Euclid Tsakalotos (1960) Greek economist and politician
" Greek finance minister: 'I don't know if we did the right thing' http://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2015/jul/16/greek-bailout-finance-minister-vote-video" (16 July 2015)