Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

Of two evils, choose neither.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

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

I could've gone to prom... or I could've done 'X-Men.'

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

You have to choose your future regrets.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.