Quotes About Dilemma

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

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

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

You should have left him to wander," Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. "Would you?" he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. "No," he admitted.

It is possible, of course...to want to do two different things at the same time. Then it just becomes a choice of knowing which one you want most.

The question is," said Halt, glancing at Alyss, "what should we do with him?" She hesitated, then that wonderful smile spread over her face. "I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?

the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

Job presses his point that it is bad policy for God's most faithful people to suffer (theologically counterintuitive).7 Caught on the horns of this dilemma, what is a God to do? This is what the book is going to sort out. Because the book is about God, the teaching that it offers is valuable to all of us. It does not tell us why Job or any of us suffer, but it does tell us a bit about how we should think about God when we are suffering. This is what we really needed to know anyway.

Remember the soldier in the Civil War who wore a Rebel jacket and Union trousers—he was shot both in the front and the back! You must choose which side you're on! You are either a servant to Jesus Christ or a slave to Satan! The choice is yours.

for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

While between two stools my tail go to the ground.

Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

The fat is in the fire.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.

The computer is very good at solving the problem we have specified and asked it to solve, but less useful when we are not quite sure what the problem is.

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.