Jenny Slate Quotes

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

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.

A lot of times I made the wrong choices and you learn from this, what is good, what's bad.

There are scenarios when I wish I would have made some different choices with the playcall.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.

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.

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

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

I don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a matter of which way we walk home. I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, than I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high-school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street ... or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.