Quotes About Dilemma

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

You can't go east and west at the same time.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

I can't eat chicken and look at strippers at the same time.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences? Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary.

So," the bearded man said, "we kill this man

I will do anything to save Laurana, he swore beneath his breath, clenching his fist. Anything! If it means sacrificing myself or— He stopped. Would he really give up Berem? Would he really trade the Everman to the Dark Queen, perhaps plunge the world into a darkness so vast it would never see light again? No, Tanis told himself firmly. Laurana would die before she would be part of such a bargain.

On peut dire que tout est prédestiné, que tout est un arrangement extrêmement savant dont nous ne voyons qu'une toute petite partie. On peut dire aussi que tout est chaos, et je me heurterai à ce dilemme jusqu'au bout. (p. 166)

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

It was just that this was real life and no decision was clearly sign-posted. It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and you're life's a disaster. In real life it's often almost impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes--often--neck and neck.