Quotes About Dilemma

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

It doesn't fill me with joy, being the gun guy.

I'm a bad girl. I always fall for good guys.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

A young woman who until the very end chose neither wisely or well

Sometimes the exacerbating factor is so acute that it can render the direct solution nearly useless—but solving the exacerbating factor is always inadequate in the absence of the direct solution.

He could not at first leave the fire.

Getting out of trouble is a whole lot more of a hassle than staying out of trouble.

And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens—just the way things that seem good for you can turn out bad, bad as dirt.

As was often the case with the ego's script, the plot added up to "damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

I don't want something that's good for headaches. I want something that's bad for headaches. And good for me.

The conduct that issues from a moral conflict has often so close resemblance to vice that the distinction escapes all outward judgments founded on a mere comparison of actions. -Book 6, chapter 9

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

I do try to think if I can afford not to do something I don't want to do, and if I can, then I don't do it, that's for sure. But the consequence of that is that you can be unemployed, it can make you feel ghastly, because you wonder if you will ever work again.

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?