Isaiah Berlin Quotes

Be careful what you choose: You may get 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.

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

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

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

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

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

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

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.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

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

We don’t get to replay history.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.