Philip Pullman Quotes

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

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

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

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

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

What would you do if you had to choose?

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

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

Make your choice and accept the consequences.

He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

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