253 Choices Quotes

There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club. You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the club.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Never cut what you can untie.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

When a man comes through He must do what he's supposed to do When a man comes through. He can't do what everyone expects him to.

Variant: We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.

Resolved - never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

I've sent in my application to The Real World, so I'm puttin' a lotta eggs in that basket, the MTV basket. I also thought about getting a gun and becomin' a crack dealer. I wouldn't be, like, a mean crack dealer...I'd be a nice one. I'd just be like 'Hey, guys, what's up? You want some crack?'.

Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within. The contest between light and darkness, right and wrong, goes on; day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, our characters are being formed, and this is the all-important question which comes to us in accents ever growing fainter as we journey from the cradle to the grave, 'Shall those characters be good or bad?'

To stop leaving tracks is easy. Not to walk upon the ground is hard.

I've never been 'anti' drugs:I just choose not to use them. If you wanna get fucked up:more power to ya.

On what she would probably do if she weren't performing.

We all chose the next single. Me, Jay-Z, Evan and Carl. There was actually a fight because there was so many second singles

Am I cold or is it just I sold my soul?/Addicted to these streets, never find true peace I'm told

When all else fails, men turn to reason.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

First of all, you have to marry the right person. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely- by that time, you're both dead. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

They say rock n' roll is the devil's music. Well, let's say that it is; I've got news for you. Let's say that rock n' roll is the devil's music and we know it for a fact to be the absolutely, unequivocally true. Boy, at least he fucking jams! Ha ha ha ha! Okay? Did you hear that correctly? If it's a choice between eternal hell and good tunes and eternal heaven and new kids on the fucking block : I'm gonna be surfing on the lake of fire, rocking out : high five at Satan every time I pass the motherfucking shore.

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask: 'Does this path have a heart?'

Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road, you see. It's actually a matter of economics, much like the Vietnamese war, I guess. I didn't want to go on the road and I wanted to stay home with my baby. I guess I could go to Kansas and be a waitress and support my child that way. But I'd rather live comfortable and I wanted to do more creative work. I didn't just want to be part of a group. I wanted to be able to do television, and a movie if it came up, to sort of diversify myself, to extend myself. Within the framework of a group, that freedom is not possible.

But I talk in the mirror to the stranger that appears our conversations are circles,always one sided Nothing is clear Except we keep coming back,to this meaning that I lack He says the choices were given,now i must live them Or just not live,but do you want that?

'Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.'

Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.

I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like It were going on. I have misspent my days. When I think of all those hours I flung away in reading Henry James and Santayana, when I might have been reading of life, throbbing, beating, perfumed life, I practically break down.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

In a contrast between 1960's astronauts consuming 'Tang' and crewmen on the Enterprise eating solid food: 'Why should a man give up the joy of ham and eggs if the technology will allow it?'

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the United States of America, I would certainly choose the Soviet Union, if I had to choose between life in North Korea and life in South Korea, I would certainly choose North Korea.

If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don't come running to me.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

I had a year where I sat around on my butt and declined generous offers to do more teen movies and more of the same characters as the one from 10 Things. I was literally living off Ramen noodles and water just because I was sticking to my guns. It was very hard because they offer you so much money. It's so easy to say, 'Ah fuck it, at least I can live and eat.'

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood. I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't. I don't even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much more I want to discover.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I don't want to be limited by other people's opinions. (1988)

I don't want to make a career of taking my shirt off. I'd like to shave off all my hair, even my eyebrows, try it that way. (1988)

I just don't want to look back in 30 or 40 or 50 years and have my grandkids say, 'You did a lot of stupid shit, Granddad. What an idiot you were, smiling for the cameras and playing the game.' (1999)

I don't regret any of the things I didn't do, and I certainly don't regret any of the thing I did do, down to the dumbest. Everything happened the way it should happen, even ridiculous things that I did in the beginning. I don't regret any of it. (2004)

I could do a Bruce Willis thing and make a record now, but it would just milk my teen-boy, pop-idol image. I'd rather do nothing than do that. (1988)

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Resolved, always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

It is better to copulate than never.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.