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Quotes About Dilemma

She turned to Frizz. So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans. Frizz's eyebrows rose. So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? We need another plan, Hiro said.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you." He put his hands on her shoulders. "It was the only thing in my mind, when it came time to choose – that I couldn't lose you. That's when I knew.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Al diablo ahora mismo vendería mi alma si yo no fuese el diablo mismo!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She was in deep trouble and knew it
~ Johanna Lindsey
No way it's up to me to decide which life is "better." So if it isn't up to me...I don't get it, ma. How can a life be saved if a life is lost?
~ John Arcudi
I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both.
~ John Berger
No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.
~ John Burnside
The cleverest writers give the someone we like not one but two things he wants VERY BADLY, and then puts them at odds with each other. I love Romeo but hate his Montague family. I love the Shire but want to travel like Uncle Bilbo and see elves and dragons. I love Lois Lane but I have to act like a mild mannered dweeb to hide my powerful secret lest my effectiveness as a crimefighter be compromised, so the girl I have a crush on has a crush on my alter ego and won't give me a date.
~ John C Wright
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
Frank tried to look like he was wrestling with his conscience, although he couldn't have found his conscience without a shovel and an exhumation order.
~ John Connolly
He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.
~ John Connolly
You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.
~ John Connolly
You don't invite two guys to the same rich snooty dinner party charity thingy. Haven't you ever seen a movie in your life? Now one of us has to kill the other one.
~ John David Anderson
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
~ Emily Giffin
Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.
~ Paul Theroux
I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.
~ Peter Falk
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
~ Nicole Richie
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
~ Anton Chekhov
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
~ Clarence Darrow
Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
~ Janet Morris
A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
~ Gillian Flynn