Melissa Auf der Maur Quotes

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

All advantages are attended with disadvantages.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

Everything in life has its price.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.