Quotes About Dilemma

I didn't know what to do. I'm in love with this woman, I'm married to this other woman, and I'm in trouble, so I call my two friends. That's all I need, two. I need the main guy and the guy I go to when I drain the main guy.

who offered to make him bishop of Strasbourg if he would stay.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

I'm a picture of abject fear. If I had my choice between flying to El Paso or getting a colonoscopy, I'd have to think about it.

It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.

So you would have me take the job simply to avoid something worse.

I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.

Even if it rewards a murderer and a traitor.

Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, use it well, use it wisely. We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

I guess she's just nuts,' he said. 'And if she's nuts, a guy's got to do nuts things. You don't think you could say the hell with her?

It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

But us, we got a job to do, and there's a thousand ways, and we don't know which one to take. And if I was to pray, it'd be for the folks that don't know which way to turn.

I don't know. It's like getting up in the morning. I don't want to get up but I don't want to stay in bed either.

Well, we all got to make a livin'. Yeah, Tom said. On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

If two generous paths branch from the highroad of life and only one can be followed, who is to judge which is best?

Ever since I lost the spirit, I'd just as soon go one way or the other. I'll go your way.

I think I love you. But I'm not good. Because you're not good.

She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.

devil. And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil.

Which witch is which?