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.

It got to a point where every script I was being offered involved some kind of nudity. And I had to say to myself, 'Okay, people want to see the girl from 'Who's the Boss' with her tits out.' I had to decide between eating and doing what I love, acting, or getting a job at the Burger King. So I went hooters to the wind, and now I live in a mansion.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

You take the Monroes and the Terry Moores, and you know just what you're going to get every time. With Audrey it's kind of unpredictable. She's like a good tennis player - she varies her shots.

When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

Your best move.... is the move you regret not doing.

I don't believe you're leaving 'cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

Do what you feel is right for you, no matter what. Believe in yourself, no matter how many people tell you that you're fucked up, do what you have to do. AS LONG as it doesn't infringe on other people's happiness.

I know when to stay in And when to go out Get things done!

Who wants the love of all the world When here was love in the eyes of just one girl That day, that precious day When even a fool learns to love.

In the event that this fantastic voyage Should turn to erosion and we never get old Remember it's true, dignity is valuable But our lives are valuable too.

I need 4 hot dogs with everything, one plain.

The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

For a long time I've been walking down life's road with my two pals, Bad Luck and Bad Choices. Fortunately I'm a big believer in new beginnings, new friends, and running from my problems. So one day I decided to head for the island. Aloha, my name is Jack.

I believe that the nature of man is a contradiction rooted in the conditions of human existence that requires a search for solutions, which in their turn create new contradictions and now the need for answers. I believe that every answer to these contradictions can really satisfy the condition of helping man to overcome the sense of separation and to achieve a sense of agreement, of unity, and of belonging. I believe that in every answer to these contradictions, man has the possibility of choosing only between going forward or going back; these choices, which are translated into specific actions, are means toward the regressing or toward the progressing of the humanity that is in us.

Pies, para que los quiero Si tengo alas para volar.

What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.

'A person fucks himself up so much,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said, 'Fucks himself up so much just so that six weak fairies can kill him and he can't do anything about it.' (p. 128)

There must, he says, be some limit to what we will do in order to remain alive, and the limit is well on this side of chicken broth. This attitude is perhaps a noble one, but, in the sense which - I think - most people would give to the word, it is inhuman.

And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smokin' caterpillar has given you the call. Call Alice when she was just small.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. **Variant: I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Personally, If I were Harry Potter I think I would go and hide somewhere, but that's because I know what's coming!

Sometimes, when you have success, it traps you - and this is something that I think is really specific to the movie business. You don't even know it until you're in it, really.

To think that I very nearly didn't go... What if I'd been here-out riding in Virginia or somewhere-Thank God I went with him.

Question: 'Now that you guys probably have some nice cash, would you ever buy a mansion? Or stick with the midsized houses, like 20-30 thousand? Just asking. And cars, do you stick with the cool old cheapy's or go with the hummers?'

Interviewer: 'AFI haven't been afraid to do the odd Misfits cover in past. Do you see yourselves recording a couple of more in the future?' Jade: 'Ah,...I doubt it. Ha-ha.'

Why not do what you really think, even if it's a mistake?

There are three things I'll never do again - eat Play-Doh, run with scissors and keep my ice-cube collection in a shoebox.

The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

You ought to be thankful for the little things But little things are all you seem to give You're always putting off what we can do today Soap opera says you've got One Life to Live Who's right, who's wrong?

I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it.

For hit ys oft seyde by hem that yet lyues He must nedys go that the deuell dryues.

In mirth that after no repenting draws.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

'When I make an album I take a lot of risks. I ignore the trends of the moment and one of the things I have to think of when making an album like this is the honesty of it. To connect. It goes against the grain. It's nice to know I can go against the grain.'

Give me the Banshees for B.V.s.

I'll be sitting in your mirror. Now is the place where the crossroads meet. Will you look into the future?

Many years ago, back near the start of her career, she regarded the domestic demands of motherhood as a dubious prospect, claiming her work was her love, and how could she do that and bring up a child at the same time? The answer, presumably, was not to work for a dozen years.

I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.

Give your children lots of rope. Allow them to make their own mistakes. Don't give them too much advice. Each child is different; you have to respect that. It's a crapshoot: You roll the dice, and you see what happens.

19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.

Very early on, I determined not to let other people's lack of imagination define my life.

In a successful attempt to thwart a seduction I had ended up with two whores and a whore house. And I was just eighteen.

Risk means guessing at the outcome, but never second-guessing.

I haven't been like, 'Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!'

I'd love to be a sculptor. I studied photography, sculpture and theatre for my A-levels and at that age I was torn as I got better results for the others than for theatre studies. But ultimately acting was what I always wanted to do. It was my calling in life.

She's your other self. Will you really leave her for us?

I never thought id lose you again But I knew we had lost each other on the day you first loved [him]. Then you should have told me! I wouldn't have done it That's why I didn't tell you. But it isn't true ... You would have done it anyway. And I wanted you to. You've never been happier.

She's just being a martyr no I'm not I'm being practical. You're being a fool.

You don't know that you're right. And you don't know that I'm wrong. It's my life. The hell it is.

A male does his best, reproductively, if he wanders and copulates as widely as possible. I've done the wandering. Somehow I missed out on the copulating.

I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

[He] didn't know what he wanted, but he did know what he didn't want. What he didn't want was any of the girls at school. He had lots of friends who were girls. He liked them. Nice girls. Just not for him.

He felt sick with the sense of loss. What have I been doing all these years? How stupid can a reasonably bright guy be?

I made this big statement saying, 'I've left The Libertines.' A couple of people said, 'You can't do that! You're such a great band! What are you gonna do about Brixton?' And some people said, 'Well, I'd rather be here than Brixton.' There's no reason you can't do both. If I was 16 or 17 and Morrissey opened his front door to me and let me go and listen to him and chat to him it would be a joy. Why not? It's possible. I don't really have that much else going on in my life.

Le succes, qui ne prouve pas toujours le merite, tient souvent davantage au choix du sujet qu'a son execution.

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

I have to turn down roles I really want to do because I can't travel. But that's okay, because you make peace with things in your mind.

I don't see any point or any good in drugs that are as disruptive as cocaine.

I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.