Renata Adler Quotes

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

I wonder if we haven’t committed the most dreadful folly.

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

I'm sure I've already made some mistakes that I'll wish I could take back.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.