Diana Gabaldon Quotes

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

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

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

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

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.

Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

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

Regret's kind of like a fool's game.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

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.

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

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.