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Quotes About Dilemma

Und so sagte ich ihr, dass ich ihrem Daddy wehtun müsste, damit wir fliehen könnten, und da trat ein Ausdruck in ihre Augen, den ich gut kannte. Denn trotz ihrer Wohlanständigkeit mochte Quilla June ihren gottesfürchtigen Daddy nicht besonders gern.
~ Harlan Ellison
Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.
~ Harper Lee
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
~ Harper Lee
Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases.
~ Harper Lee
I can't beat you, I can't join you.
~ Harper Lee
We wondered when your conscience and his would part company.
~ Harper Lee
around the house to get in, but he run out the front door just ahead of me. I sawed who he was, all right. I was too distracted about Mayella to run after'im. I run in the house and she was lyin' on the floor squallin'—" "Then what did you
~ Harper Lee
Jean Louise, when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stovewood or a citizens' council." "That
~ Harper Lee
one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
~ Harper Lee
Henry, how can you live with yourself?" "It's comparatively easy. Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.
~ Harper Lee
Your trouble, now, you want to have your cake and eat it: you want to stop the clock, but you can't.
~ Harper Lee
cómo puedes vivir con tu conciencia? —Es relativamente fácil. Simplemente, a veces no voto según mis convicciones, eso es todo. —Hank
~ Harper Lee
You are using frightful means to justify ends that you think are for the good of the most people. Your ends may well be right—I think I believe in the same ends—but you cannot use people as your pawns, Atticus. You cannot.
~ Harper Lee
Morning sickness and bank robbery doesn't mix well.
~ Harry Harrison
The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.
~ Haruki Murakami
I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?
~ Haruki Murakami
Had I done the right thing by not telling her? Maybe not. Who on earth wanted the right thing anyway? Yet what meaning could there be if nothing was right? If nothing was fair? Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
~ Haruki Murakami
Problems begin the moment we're born. We're born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That's inevitable. But what can you do? That's what it is to live.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Between two evils, I choose the one I've never tried before.
~ Heinlein Robert A.
Zij was beminnelijk en hij beminde haar, / hij echter was niet beminnelijk / en zij beminde hem niet. (Een oud stuk)
~ Heinrich Heine
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
~ Heinrich Heine
Bridget: Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.
~ Helen Fielding