Best 15 quotes in «bad choices quotes» category

...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back there in the moment, like she has the moment to do over and make different choices than she made. But she can't, because they're just memories and they're set down permanent as if they were chiseled in marble, and so she just has to watch herself do the same things over and over and it's a condemnation if it's anything.

All the shame would be on display, the wind taking the stink of it far beyond the borders of Grand Rapids.

Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.

Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.

Bad bets sometimes pay off.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Good ideas can also be bad choices.

She didn’t want to explain the recklessness, the pleasure of making the bad choice, the glory of at least this once, picking her own path to damnation.

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action.

I cannot believe you formed this plan," Clove said. "No one else would think of this but you." "That's true; I am very clever!" Ella wriggled next to Clove, peering. "That is the opposite of what I meant." Ella sighed. "Clove, please recognize the negative energy you are bringing into this space." "WE'RE IN A POTATO CART!" Ella shushed her. "I do everything for a reason. Just because you do not know that reason, does not make it silly." "Sometimes the reason is that you make bad choices," Clove muttered.

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?

Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.