Gary Cole Quotes

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

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

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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

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

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

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

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

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

One always wonders about roads not taken.

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

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

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.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

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.