Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life!

It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]