Quotes About Choices

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been.

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Everything's important. A man lives his life, he has to make that important. Whether he's a small town county sheriff or the president. Or a busted out bum.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

All the trouble I ever was in, said Ballard, was caused by whiskey or women or both. He'd often heard men say as much. All the trouble I ever was in was caused by gettin caught, said the black.

That's where you're wrong my friend. Everything's important. A man lives his life, he has to make that important. Whether he's a small town county sheriff or the president. Or a busted out bum. You might even understand that some day.

And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

We're so lucky, I said. Don't you think? Most people don't have that. I know, everywhere other than New York, if you have a good job and a spouse and kids and a house and a car, those are the markers of maturity and stability and completeness. And you eat your dinner at seven P.M. and go to bed at ten, and go for vigorous jogs on the weekend. If you're into that, great. But there are lots of other ways to put a life together.

They spent almost four dollars on supper at the mall, and none of them had dessert. They had hamburgers and french fries and, after Dicey thought it over, milkshakes.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Kad biste im mogli samo dokazati da živjeti i trošiti nije jedno te isto!

The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.

People waste their happiness—that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those?

En los primeros treinta años de tu vida, tú defines tus hábitos. Durante los últimos treinta, tus hábitos te definen a ti".

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

To overlook extra possibilities is the fallacy of false dichotomy.