Robert B. Parker Quotes

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.

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

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Have I gone too far?

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.