Colleen Hoover Quotes

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

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

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

Of two Evils we take the less.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

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

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

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.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

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

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.