Gerda Lerner Quotes

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

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.

Conditions we face are the result of choices made and problems unmet.

We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

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

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

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.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

We have to make the right decisions.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.