Quotes About Dilemma

How does one use power to do good, when wielding power requires one to do evil ?

He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.

prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.

Los hombres rara vez tienen el valor suficiente para ser o extremadamente buenos o extremadamente malos.

It is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin by the great number who are not good.

KiÅŸinin nas?l yaÅŸad??? ve nas?l yaÅŸamas? gerektiÄŸi aras?nda öyle büyük bir uçurum vard?r ki, yap?lmas? gereken uÄŸruna yap?lan? terk eden kiÅŸi, çok geçmeden korunmas?n? deÄŸil, y?k?m?n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olur.

How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.' (ch XV)

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

You are in so much more trouble than I thought you were!

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?

If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die? No, sweetie. Just the opposite. He rolled his head to face her. I asked you to come so I could watch you live.

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

Oh, the dilemma of the summer music festival. On one hand, we ladies try very hard to look cute walking around those muddy fields in our cowboy boots and cut-offs. On the other hand, we want to look like we really didn't try at all and just rolled out of bed looking this way.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.

The catch in the industry is that if you want to get a picture made for little money, you have to get a big star. But the two are usually mutually exclusive.

I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.

He knew he was vulnerable now, cornered with one way out.

We're leaving him. I ain't gonna risk any of your lives for the sake of carrying the corpse of a traitor