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Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. — Tony Soprano · 2002At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998Drama (film)4 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998Psychological literature4 quotes
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. — William James · 1890We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. — William James · 1890There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James · 1890The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. — Carl Jung · 1933Crime3 quotes
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. — Tony Soprano · 2002Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Prison Governor · 1971When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello · 2006Action2 quotes
You chose poorly. — Grail Knight · 1989You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you. — Grail Knight · 1989Action (film)2 quotes
You chose poorly. — Grail Knight · 1989You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you. — Grail Knight · 1989Adventure2 quotes
You chose poorly. — Grail Knight · 1989You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you. — Grail Knight · 1989Adventure (film)2 quotes
You chose poorly. — Grail Knight · 1989You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you. — Grail Knight · 1989Epic2 quotes
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move. — Jake Sully · 2009A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. — Yoda · 1983Epic (film)2 quotes
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move. — Jake Sully · 2009A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. — Yoda · 1983Historical literature2 quotes
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852The die is cast. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCPhilosophical literature2 quotes
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. — Isaiah Berlin · 1969Political literature2 quotes
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. — Isaiah Berlin · 1969Science fiction2 quotes
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move. — Jake Sully · 2009A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. — Yoda · 1983Science fiction (film)2 quotes
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move. — Jake Sully · 2009A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. — Yoda · 1983Animation1 quote
Always let your conscience be your guide. — Jiminy Cricket · 1940Animation (film)1 quote
Always let your conscience be your guide. — Jiminy Cricket · 1940Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Biography1 quote
The die is cast. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCChildren's literature1 quote
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss · 1990Comedy drama1 quote
When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. — Mark Renton · 1996Comedy drama (film)1 quote
When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. — Mark Renton · 1996Coming of age1 quote
At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016Coming of age (film)1 quote
At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016Crime (TV)1 quote
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. — Tony Soprano · 2002Crime (film)1 quote
Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Prison Governor · 1971Crime drama1 quote
When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello · 2006Drama (TV)1 quote
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. — Tony Soprano · 2002Dystopian1 quote
Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Prison Governor · 1971Dystopian (film)1 quote
Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Prison Governor · 1971