Quotes About Dilemma

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice," Hanalea said. "When that time comes, choose love.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'- and tore it up.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all?

So I gave up the idea of a circus, and concluded he was from an asylum.  But we never came to an asylum—so I was up a stump, as you may say.

Hi-YI! YOU'RE up a stump, ain't you!

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time.

If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have less good and more comfort.

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?