Will Oldham Quotes

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

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

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

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

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

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

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail