Amor Towles Quotes

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

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

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Decisions determine destiny.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.