Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

Ultimately all the options are ugly… These decisions are very, very difficult

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

Our options oftentimes on foreign policy are not a choice between a good one and a bad one. It's a choice between two less-than-ideal options. And you're trying to figure out which is the least harmful of the two. And I think that's something we should be encouraged by, not something that we should be critical of.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.