Quotes about Dilemma

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy. This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality.

Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.

Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do..

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.