Past Choices Quotes

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

I wouldn't say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.

The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

I don't really regret much of my music life.

I could have been known for something terrible.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.