Edward Zwick Quotes

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

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

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

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

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

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

I will always need to compromise and make choices - you just have to work hard at making the right choice day by day.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.