Quotes About Dilemma

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

How can I bless you when you are cursed in your choice?

lie don't seem a lie anymore when it's meant to save a dog, and right and wrong's all mixed up in my head.

Was Agent XOX to die a drowning death? You let go of her! came Eddie's voice, and suddenly Eddie had one arm, Beth the other, and they were pulling her the other way. Back and forth, back and forth. Secret Agent XOX was going to die a stretching death instead. Torn limb from limb.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

if the just man is good at keeping money, he is good at stealing it.

Where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing.

Une courtisane est toujours bonne, s'il y a plus de mal que de bien à faire.

He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He knows whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.

Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. —

So Miss Curdy said I had to be punished. She gave me a choice of punishments. One: I could come into the gym after school every day and inflate all the basketballs — by mouth — until my head exploded. Or two: I could coach the first-grade soccer team. I chose number two. The wrong choice.

I never meant it, he was saying. Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

This is why I should consider breaking my straight-edge vow. Beer most certainly would help this situation. It probably couldn't make it any worse. Basic

I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.

Existen infinidad de maneras de forzarte a tomar una decisión. Todo el tiempo hacemos eso: tomar decisiones. Si pensáramos cada vez que tomamos una decisión, nos quedaríamos paralizados. Que palabras deberíamos decir. Hacia donde girar. Que mirar. Que número marcar. Uno tiene que tomar aquellas decisiones que considera importantes y dejar a un lado el resto. Son aquellas ocasiones en las que uno piensa que una de esas opciones podría arruinarlo todo.

But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: 'I'm terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—' would not be a very propitious beginning.

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.