Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

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

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

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

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.

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

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

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

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

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That's the deepest lesson of 'Star Wars.'

You cannot look back and think what if.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.