Quotes About Choices

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, 'Come on, think about it.' He'd choose more involving films like 'Pulp Fiction,' and at the end of the night, we'd agree that they were great.

We all have regrets,' Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. 'It's why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn't have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.

I'm sorry to say, Marcus, that each of your recent choice of companions—the last four or five, at least—displayed all the intelligence of a turnip.

I believe fate is who we are and what we make of our chances.

Just remember that people make their own choices, and then they live with them. We can try to change them, but we can't make their choices for them. If you do everything you can to help, you have to accept the outcome they bring on themselves.

Yet in the city I was discovering, the collage of fantasy, pigment, quotation, and architecture that I walked through daily in my outfits and my obsessions, I came to notice small-scale transpositions, tiny openings within the texture of the present, where choices towards a freed thinking could be possible.

If you don't want to deal with things like guilt, shame and disappointment later on in life, then you'll have t start now by making choices that won't result in those things...tomorrow's regret depends on today's decisions. If you don't want to regret your physical intimacy tomorrow, then you'll have to be living in un-regrettable physical intimacy today.

one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

It's a lesson I'm trying to learn from him, this living squarely in the present. I am a planner and a worrier. I torment myself by mentally replaying my past mistakes, wishing I'd been smarter, wishing I'd been stronger, wishing I'd made different choices. I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.

some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.

that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.

You're not the bad choices you may have made. You're who you are right now, and you're the next decision you make.

And I am coming from the library with my arms full of books. I think of those prizes that were ours for the taking and wonder when the choices got made we don't remember making.

purpose. We have a purpose in this life, and every minute we can make bad choices or good ones. Today I feel I've made a good one." She smiled at the rabbi, who smiled encouragingly back.

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

Remember, consensus is not a decision-making strategy. In fact, it is the opposite. It's a technique to avoid making difficult choices.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.