Quotes About Dilemma

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

In his hand, Marc still had the Glock semi-automatic. Both of them knew what should happen next. The right choice, the expedient choice, was to put a bullet in this man's head and keep running. Marc kept running

El temor por nuestras propias vidas pudo habernos inducido a llevarlo al patíbulo y ponerle la soga al cuello, pero fue necesario un ímpetu más urgente que nos hiciera continuar y darle una patada a la silla.

We can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us.

Then Henry spoke. His words were low but deliberate and distinct. Should I do what is necessary? To my surprise, Julian took both Henry's hands in his own. You should only, ever, do what is necessary, he said. What, I thought, the hell is going on? I stood at the top of the stairs, trying not to make a sound, wanting to leave before they saw me but afraid to make a move. To my utter, utter surprise Henry leaned over and gave Julian a quick little businesslike kiss on the cheek.

I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up.

The worsening context of the war, which threatened the survival of the Union and the Constitution itself, provided a suitable resolution to this dilemma.

him under the heaviest strain to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?

The boys would quit school and sooner or later go to jail for something silly. I might not quit school, not while Mama had any say in the matter, but what difference would that make? What was I going to do in five years? Work in the textile mill? Join Mama at the diner? It all looked bleak to me. No wonder people got crazy as they grew up.

Essential political decisions are made not once, but again and again in a variety of situations, always against that pressure to compromise, to bargain

Though whether the mass murder of strangers for one's principles ranks higher in virtue than attacking one's neighbours for the hell of it is a point I'm glad I don't have to settle.

It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with respect to which it is not easy to cut the tree.

You'll seek out strumpets, fumble with courtiers, fornicate with either parent of the heiress you are supposed to be marrying, but to embrace your wife sickens you?' The music stopped in the room; and the movement. 'Ah,' said Lymond. His face had emptied. 'From a new host and an old harlot, the good Lord deliver us.

He said, 'Don't. That is not a weapon for you. And it destroys what we have.' 'But I have nothing, yet,' Philippa said. 'And all the nicety is on your side. Which means I choose any weapon that suits me.

Does anyone—Jerott?—know a nice clean strumpet who doesn't have the pox and will sleep in my room tonight to discourage Richard? She needn't stay beyond half an hour, and I don't want to meet her.' 'And that's a bloody waste,' said Jerott belligerently. 'And it's going to stay a bloody waste,' said Lymond tartly. 'I want a little privacy, not to work up a joint reputation as Hophni and Phinehas.

What can be done for these headaches?' [...] 'Short of execution,' Lymond said, 'I think the problem is insoluble.

I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.

You know,' he said. 'I rather liked Ferguson, and I couldn't stick Campbell at any price. I rather wish—' 'Can't be helped, Wimsey,' said the Chief Constable. 'Murder is murder, you know.' 'Not always,' said Wimsey.

principles have become more dangerous than passions. It's getting uncommonly easy to kill people in large numbers, and the first thing a principle does—if it really is a principle—is to kill somebody." "'The real tragedy is not the conflict of good with evil but of good with good'; that means a problem with no solution.

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

Time," said Arthur weakly, "is not currently one of my problems.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

the great thing about being the only species that makes a distiction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.