History usually repeats but it can be changed.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.
Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.
I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.
Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.
The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.
It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.
Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
