Isaac Marion Quotes

Do you ever have a day like that, where you just look back and you're like 'why did today happen?'

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

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

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

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?

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

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.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

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

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.