Quotes About Choices

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

If he'd lived I might have married him and had a passel of brats and a dog. Who wants that happy ending?" "A lot of people." "It's bullshit." "Yes," she said. "I know.

She could have made different choices, but all that mattered were the ones she'd made.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Paths to crime are not neatly divided

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

someone whose idea of exercise was walking into McDonald's rather than using the drive-through.

Nine. You have nine. With seven different women. How many of those women did you marry? Zero. How many of those children have your name? Zero. How many of those kids did you visit?

elders need better choices for living out their lives with assistance and dignity.

That's the way it was, always will be. nothing we can do to make it different. It's a story now, and stories have endings even when you don't know- fools like me- that you're already in the middle of one, and you're already making choices... Choices that will bring you to places you'd never thought you'd be, places in your heart you'll mourn and love the rest of your life.~Mr. Dees

Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like "paths in life" out loud.

I'm not rich enough to do anything I want to do. But I know what you mean; I'm rich enough to avoid doing the things I don't want to do.

You should have gone west to America. You would have been a senior citizen of Boston. But you took a wrong turn, and what happened? You're a lonely old man from Liverpool.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.

The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.

The duty of the historian," Gordon Craig has reminded us, "is to restore to the past the options it once had." Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memorable.

Since the alternatives to war remain roads largely not taken in the United States, however, they are tricky subjects for historians. As Edward Carr notes, History is, by and large, a record of what people did, not what people failed to do. On the other hand, making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning. History is contingent on the actions of people.

Any telling of history requires choices as to what is included and what is left out and is therefore by definition an interpretation.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

We must allow difference of taste.

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