George R. R. Martin Quotes

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

In war there are no easy choices.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

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

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.

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

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

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

Sometimes there are no good choices.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

The presidency is not about easy choices.

Government is about hard choices.

Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

I try to make the right decisions.

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

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

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.