Quotes About Choices

You're alive, and this is what you're doing with it? Your youth grows pale. What do you have left? I tried to banish the thoughts from my head. But they were stubborn, and instead of leaving, they jumped on the floorboards inside my head.

I can make up my homework, but I can't make up my life.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

What are you doing?' Hugh moaned as I stepped out of the dressing room. 'That's three pairs of culottes you'll own now.' All I could say in my defense was 'Maybe I have a busy life.

I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [...]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don't want them to feel you've dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn't come along all that often.

Celui qui passe à coté de la plus belle histoire de sa vie n'aura que l'âge de ses regrets et tous les soupirs du monde ne sauraient bercer son âme.

Omul care las? s?-i scape dragostea vie?ii sale va ajunge singur cu regretele sale ?i toate suspinele lumii nu-i pot aduce alinare sufletului.

People aren't poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they're poor.

But he had underestimated the strangeness of talking about the future of his life with someone for whom the future still seemed unbounded: a pleasure palace of choices, with infinite doors, in which only a fool would spend his time trapped in one room.

There's never any knowing—how am I to put it?—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. —E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

People are not poor because they've made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they're poor.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.

Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.

I think it's especially hard when you start at an academy, because everything is decided for you. And then when you go with U.S.T.A., there's only so many decisions you can make.

Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

I have been saying 'no' to many projects ever since people accepted Malar from the movie 'Premam.'

Sometimes I ask myself if I'm accepting too many films.

Everyone in life has those critical moments in their life when they know that something they did or didn't do would affect their future.

The decisions I make with my career is not just about me. It doesn't affect just me.

If people were able to afford to eat nutritious food, I think they would make better choices.

I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.

I've been a free agent a couple times now. It's a process. You got to be smart with your decisions.