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Quotes About Choices

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
History is the story of people's lives. History reflects the consequences of their choice and actions – both good and bad. History is what has given you the world you live in today – both good and bad.
~ Unknown
Why are certain people determined to fuck up their lives while for others it seems so easy to do things the way they are supposed to be done?
~ Virginie Despentes
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
~ Voltaire
Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
~ W. Clement Stone
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
~ W. G. Sebald
At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe'sWe drank our liquor straight,Some went upstairs with Margery,And some, alas, with Kate.
~ W. H. Auden
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
~ W. H. Auden
I had long ago learned to ignore things I could not resolve. Whenever I was faced with such choices, something always occured to tip the scales one way or another and relieve me of the decision. I watched the skies for portents from the Gods.
~ Unknown
Go your ways, O go your ways I choose another mark, Girls down on the seashore Who understand the dark
~ W.B. Yeats
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
~ W.C. Fields
Thou shalt not live within thy means Nor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must choose Between the chances, choose the odd; Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views.
~ W.H. Auden
You talked to us about what kind of fifth-graders we wanted to be this year. How it was all in our choices, every minute of our days. How even grownups like you had to think about it sometimes, to be the person they wanted to be.
~ Unknown
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
~ Mary Schmich
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
~ Sean Connery
Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should have gone to Hogwart's when I had the chance.
~ Darynda Jones
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~ Gloria Estefan
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!
~ Deyth Banger
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
~ Charles Dickens
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
~ Larry Wall
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.
~ Arianna Huffington
Make good choices and always do your best.
~ Unknown