Quotes About Dilemma

But that's just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices—and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.

If you did the wrong things for the right reasons, did that make the wrong things right? Or did that just mean you had turned your back on finding a more right way? And once you justified violence, did that make it easier the next time and the next, until you'd become the villain of your own story?

An ordinary home about to be shattered. I'd rather cut off my hand than look into Belinda Horner's eyes and ask her to identify a body I'm certain is her daughter. But this is my job, and I don't have a choice.

Minor detail. I'm going to kiss you, Marlie—" "I'll bite you again," she swiftly warned. He shrugged. "I always have had more guts than sense," he said, and very gently brushed her mouth with his.

Let's just say that, where Faith is concerned, I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock is my family, and the hard place—" he looked around with a sort of angry amusement in his eyes "—is in my pants.

Wilbur looked patently horrified. "Surely you wouldn't consider living on Suds Row," he said. Then he lowered his voice. "If the major won't marry you, I will." Lily was now exasperated as well as winded. "Of course I don't mean to live on the Row," she answered, ignoring Wilbur's whispered offer to make an honest woman of her.

If I were you," she countered, "I'd get the major's weddin' ring on my finger, and his baby in my belly, and I'd forget this whole stupid idea of homesteadin'!" Insulted

Run! her mind screamed. Stay! her heart plead.

It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else.

Though physical courage is a common phenomenon in our day and age, moral courage is a thing that is correspondingly rare.

People who have manifested the greatest physical courage, in actual fact, not seldom fail when it comes to showing a little moral courage.

Harris Reed: Ah, you caught me. Bobby: And now's the part when I throw you back.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

We shall be able to solve the problem when it will be clearly evident to all that there is no other, no cheaper way out of the present situation.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ~Albert Einstein

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?