Quotes About Choices

Drinking and driving: there are stupider things, but it's a very short list.

In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour.

Video games ruined my life. (Good thing I have two more.)

Let the dead bury their dead.

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.

RISING.SUN detected: (A)nother coffee, (C)old shower, (S)leep?

The future lies before you Like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, For every step will show.

Life is not like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow.

What, is he who walks prone upon his face better guided than he who walks upright on a straight path?

Is better to lose one minute in life... than to lose life in a minute.

Why do married men gain weight while bachelors don't? Bachelors go to the refrigerator, see nothing they want, then go to bed. Married guys go to the bed, see nothing they want, then go to the refrigerator.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet—I will not— Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down. Werner who watched Volkheimer wade into house after house, the same ravening nightmare recurring over and over and over.

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet-I will not- Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down.

Maybe living was no more than getting swept over a riverbed and eventually out to sea, no choices to make, only the vast, formless ocean ahead, the frothing waves, the lightless tomb of its depths.

Go," says Volkheimer again. Werner looks at him a last time: his torn jacket and shovel jaw. The tenderness of his big hands. What you could be.

And this feeling, permeating every waking minute, that he had made too many wrong decisions.

Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.

Where there is faith, there is liberty. The heavens are open, and man's life has an aim, transcending his corporeal makeup, the particularities of his culture, and the monetary exchanges he must make along the road. Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.

Bei den Frauen gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten. Entweder sie sind Engel. Oder sie leben noch.

We're all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others.

We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.