Blake Crouch quote: "Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse?"

What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and...
BLAKE CROUCH

There was no end date for her sentence in this place. She was a lifer.
BLAKE CROUCH

What about the truth?” Ethan asked. “In some environments, safety and truth are natural born ene...
BLAKE CROUCH

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.
BLAKE CROUCH

There is no decent place to stand in a massacre.
BLAKE CROUCH

He curled up, twitching and spasming, the pain stormtrooping through his entire body in agonizing, d...
BLAKE CROUCH

I stare down into her eyes, smoky and glistening in the light stealing through the window.
BLAKE CROUCH

It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.
BLAKE CROUCH

Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never ...
BLAKE CROUCH

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.
BLAKE CROUCH

Long legs and longer arms, each tipped with a row of black talons. Sinewy. Wiry. And above all, huma...
BLAKE CROUCH

Can I just say what we’re all thinking? This is fucking weird.
BLAKE CROUCH

Why would I seek out a world like that?” “Why do people marry versions of their controlling moth...
BLAKE CROUCH

If he did this to you, he would have rationalized it somehow. That’s how decent people justify bad...
BLAKE CROUCH

It occurs to me that if I do survive, I'll carry a new revelation with me for the rest of my days: w...
BLAKE CROUCH

We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when...
BLAKE CROUCH

If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that ...
BLAKE CROUCH

No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away. There’s no proximity alert, no indi...
BLAKE CROUCH

My old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get f...
BLAKE CROUCH

On my own, the ordinariness of the moment is almost too much to stand. I glance around the restauran...
BLAKE CROUCH

I've seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it's ...
BLAKE CROUCH

It's the beautiful thing about youth.
there's a weightlessness that permeates everything becaus...
BLAKE CROUCH

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars�...
BLAKE CROUCH

We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow ...
BLAKE CROUCH

I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illu...
BLAKE CROUCH

If there are a million ponds out there, with versions of you and me living similar and different liv...
BLAKE CROUCH

I’m looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach.
BLAKE CROUCH

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly ...
BLAKE CROUCH

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
TIM CROUCH

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals...
STANLEY CROUCH

God as my witness, may He strike me down if this allegation is true.
PAUL CROUCH

I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been...
ANDRAE CROUCH

The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he p...
ANDRAE CROUCH

I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l...
ANDRAE CROUCH

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police ar...
STANLEY CROUCH

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.
TIM CROUCH

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that ...
PAUL CROUCH

I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challeng...
TIM CROUCH

I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough t...
ANDRAE CROUCH

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces ar...
TIM CROUCH

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in...
TIM CROUCH

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have...
STANLEY CROUCH

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
STANLEY CROUCH

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquett...
STANLEY CROUCH

The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been...
ANDRAE CROUCH

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation ...
TIM CROUCH

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity i...
TIM CROUCH

They want to know what it's like. They want to know how do you go to the bathroom, take a shower, wh...
ROGER CROUCH

I went to a movie called 'Destination Moon,' and that was the beginning for me. I always wanted to g...
ROGER CROUCH

These kids here at Jones Cove are just about the right age to go to Mars. Maybe the first person on ...
ROGER CROUCH

When we started, we didn't even have a script. We felt we could create the story together with the c...
JULIAN CROUCH

No assessments on any other scientific topic have been so thoroughly researched and reviewed.
ANDY CROUCH

I want to prove to myself, most importantly, that I can do this. I've believed all along that I coul...
ERIC CROUCH

He was straight as an arrow, a churchgoing kid, everyone liked him. I don't understand why things li...
MICKEY CROUCH

There is in fact no serious disagreement among scientists that human beings are playing a major role...
ANDY CROUCH

[W]e have little to lose, and much technological progress, energy security, and economic efficiency ...
ANDY CROUCH

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a tras...
STANLEY CROUCH

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creat...
TIM CROUCH

We came out kind of flat. Once we got going, we got a little tentative. We realized that and kept pu...
JERICE CROUCH

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
STANLEY CROUCH

We are all somewhere else, during.
KATIE CROUCH

We began to have second thoughts of the image that [Coulter] portrays in some of her presentations, ...
DAVID CROUCH

So the best defense against porn, for every member of our family, is a full life--the kind of life t...
ANDY CROUCH

Open for only six months, with the exhibition development program still under way, the balloon museu...
TOM CROUCH

If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful ...
ANDY CROUCH

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violen...
STANLEY CROUCH

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
TIM CROUCH

We're being invaded right now.
DAVID CROUCH

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the min...
ANDRAE CROUCH

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you woul...
ANDRAE CROUCH

I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matt...
KATIE CROUCH

This issue of territorial integrity is always foremost on the minds of Indonesian policy-makers.
HAROLD CROUCH

If you can't convict a captain, how can you convict his president?
HAROLD CROUCH

Obviously the deterrent value would be much greater if they indicted all these people.
HAROLD CROUCH

It has been a long time coming and I'm excited to be part of the Argonauts. I can't wait to get to c...
ERIC CROUCH

Damon Allen is obviously the starting quarterback, but I'm coming in with the mind-set that I want t...
ERIC CROUCH

I might just be one of those guys who can't give it up until I can't walk anymore.
ERIC CROUCH

I've never really found a home. That's the tough part of playing in this sport is that you hop aroun...
ERIC CROUCH

Football has never been out of my system. It's part of who I am. It probably will never be out of my...
ERIC CROUCH

I don't think there's a commitment problem. There might have been early on when I ran into some issu...
ERIC CROUCH

You're entitled to your privacy and it's an absolute disgrace that whoever's leaked these names out ...
JARED CROUCH

It's certainly a nice thing to have, being the reigning premiers - a nice achievement to have in you...
JARED CROUCH

It's certainly a nice thing to have, being the reigning premiers, a nice achievement to have in your...
JARED CROUCH

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a perso...
GREGORY CROUCH

What was missing, I've come to believe, were the two postures that are most characteristically bibli...
ANDY CROUCH

In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energie...
ANDY CROUCH

The language of worldview tends to imply...that we can think ourselves into new ways of behaving. Bu...
ANDY CROUCH

The language of worldview tends to imply, to paraphrase the Catholic writer Richard Rohr, that we ca...
ANDY CROUCH

We had a lovely Christmas. We turned the back yard into a studio, covered it with tarpaulin, and we ...
JULIAN CROUCH

I feel comfortable now, although I am new to the Champions League. There is a lot to learn from the ...
PETER CROUCH

We know Peter can keep the ball and give time to the others to go forward.
PETER CROUCH

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man...
BLAKE

I'm coming back and I'm coming back swinging!
BENJAMIN FORD CROUCH

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd...
BLAKE SHELTON

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.
BLAKE SHELTON

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Some you win some you lose.
YOHAN BLAKE

For me, I always try to make it to the final.
YOHAN BLAKE

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking a...
YOHAN BLAKE

My philosophy is to be me.
YOHAN BLAKE

It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
YOHAN BLAKE

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
YOHAN BLAKE

I love London, I love the British people.
YOHAN BLAKE

I work twice as hard as everybody else.
YOHAN BLAKE

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.
YOHAN BLAKE

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
YOHAN BLAKE

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
YOHAN BLAKE

I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
YOHAN BLAKE

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
YOHAN BLAKE

The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
YOHAN BLAKE

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
YOHAN BLAKE

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
YOHAN BLAKE

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
YOHAN BLAKE

Cricket is my first love.
YOHAN BLAKE

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia es...
BLAKE SHELTON

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distract...
QUENTIN BLAKE

The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
QUENTIN BLAKE

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and o...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawi...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainment...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but the...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don&#...
QUENTIN BLAKE

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
QUENTIN BLAKE

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose i...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled ac...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphe...
QUENTIN BLAKE

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature...
QUENTIN BLAKE

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for ...
BLAKE SHELTON

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

The representatives from various community groups really pleased me,
AARON BLAKE

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to h...
AARON BLAKE

What was painted on the B.U.C.K.S. side of the bridge with the black face crying white tears -- it's...
AARON BLAKE

I don't feel comfortable with my fellow students being out there until 3 in the morning, ... We are ...
AARON BLAKE

The two co-chairs of the [Black Leadership Institute] decided to contact who they thought were very ...
AARON BLAKE

I am a little disappointed that it wasn't packed,
AARON BLAKE

I credit my grandmother for my sense of style. She was known for wearing bright, outrageous things b...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I...
BLAKE LIVELY

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the pr...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian ...
BLAKE LIVELY

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, a...
BLAKE JENNER

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings, I should sus...
WILLIAM BLAKE

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do ...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the ...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to w...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy th...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability ...
LAILA BLAKE

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end. I was angry with my foe; ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.
WILLIAM BLAKE

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
WILLIAM BLAKE

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; Wh...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to en...
WILLIAM BLAKE

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

You fuck - you ate my cat!
KENDARE BLAKE

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man...
WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more....
WILLIAM BLAKE

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE

want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when t...
BLAKE LEWIS

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the pa...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The selective memory isn't selective enough.
BLAKE MORRISON

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most...
WILLIAM BLAKE

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
WILLIAM BLAKE

For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human d...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Exuberance is beauty.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as a...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fi...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and po...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it no...
WILLIAM BLAKE

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse?

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Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse?

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