Quotes About Choices

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do

Tante volte non ci rendiamo conto che le cose che facciamo per la prima volta sono punti di non ritorno. Nel bene e soprattutto nel male . Se sono sbagliate, nessuno ce le restituirà mai più.

Life inevitably translates into time. That is why the sum total of it is called 'a lifetime'. Freedom is the potential to spend one's time in any fashion one determines.

Suddenly I began to wonder how to please so many people. do I take the magnesium citrate? What about the coffee enema? Do I do both? Do I do the abdominal message or the colonic? Do I tell the doctors about each other? East meets West in Gilda's body: Western medicine down my throat, Eastern medicine up my butt.

How many walks down the stairs will I regret not having made?

And: there are so many paths we could have traveled—so many other people we could have been. Staying would not have rendered me weak—an inconsequential June Cleaver—just as cheating didn't make me a coldhearted monster. The clean reduction of a woman to any prime number is always a lie, even if some lies are prettier than others.

So many things, when you break them down, are about perception. So many things hinge on how we choose to interpret both our own choices and the immovable forces beyond our control. So much rests on having the wisdom, and sometimes the cold-edged fucking ruthlessness, to know the difference.

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads formed years and miles apart.

Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

Nella vita ci sono cose che ti cerchi e altre che ti vengono a cercare. Non le hai scelte e nemmeno le vorresti, ma arrivano e dopo non sei più uguale. A quel punto le soluzioni sono due: o scappi cercando di lasciarrele alle spalle o ti fermi e le affronti

That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Drive a mediocre car, but live in the best house you can afford.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

The future is not determined by the past. Your future is shaped by your choices NOW.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

We are responsible for most of what happens to us.

Better to have bad breath than no breath at all.

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

Instead of focusing on which unhealthy foods to eat less of, concentrate on which healthy foods to eat more of.