Clarence Darrow Quotes

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

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

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

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

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.

Unfortunately, in life, you have to make decisions based on so many things. I love watching the Premier League, and I've always had the opportunity to go, but a better offer always got in the way.

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

They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

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

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

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

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.