Marian Keyes Quotes

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

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

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

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

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

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

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

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.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.