Alternate Path Quotes & Sayings

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern. — Natalie Zemon Davis

I would not want you to think of anything while you hunt, especially not of me.I would hope that would be too distracting. — Christine Feehan

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper. — Terry Pratchett

With every choice, even the choice of inactivity, we must shut the door to a host of alternate futures. Each step we take along the path of fate represents a narrowing of potential, the death of a parallel world. The path of fate was more like a tunnel, and it was constricting about her with ever step she took. — Michael David Lukas

He smiled at me. "Have a good time."
"Thank you." The music was definitely working, I thought as I started to shut the door.
"Don't get laid," he added. — Jeri Smith-Ready

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done. — William Kristol

There will always be conflict in a world where an "I'm right, means you're wrong" mentality exists because the world is inelegantly viewed as black and white. One possible path beyond this mental miasma is to make the effort to try and understand alternate perspectives on the matters we hold most dear. — Chris Rhyss Edwards

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much. — Giovanna Cau

When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we've taken, it will cripple us, and soon we'll take no action at all. — Mary E. Pearson