Quotes About Dilemma

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

Only one word described this situation. It was "F'd." Right? But I can't say that word. People who use that word in all its four-letter glory are nothing but common beggars.

there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere?

In that moment I began to see that there are times when there is no best choice. There is only this choice and that choice, and both are terrible.

And I wonder, not for the first time, if the right thing to do is always the best thing.

We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in their defense, we become accused. If we say nothing, we condemn them falsely with our silence. What would God have us do?

What the hell do you wear to dinner with the man that you are LITERALLY in love with?!

how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice ' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

the cubicles of sin

He hovered between what he didn't want anymore and what he wasn't very likely to have.

The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. I suppose a magician might," he admitted, but a gentleman never would.

He's a real romantic," said my mother. "Romantics are usually bastards, in case you haven't noticed.

He was Lieutenant again. Which meant he was so screwed. Sam or even Roger would have had at least a slim chance of talking her out of bringing him in, but not Lieutenant Starrett.