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Quotes About Dilemma

tanr?n?n istediÄŸi iyilik mi yoksa iyiliÄŸi seçebilme ÅŸans?na sahip olabilmek mi? kötülüÄŸü seçen biri gerçekte iyiliÄŸe zorlanan birinden daha m? geçerli tanr?n?n gözünde?
~ Anthony Burgess
Nem jobb-e bizonyos értelemben az, aki a rosszat választja, mint az, akire rákényszerítik a jót?
~ Anthony Burgess
All right,' said Moreland, 'love, then. Is it better to love somebody and not have them, or have somebody and not love them? I mean from the point of view of action – living intensely. Does action consist in having or loving? In having – naturally – it might first appear. Loving is just emotion, not action at all. But is that correct? I'm not sure.
~ Anthony Powell
He saw that as usual it would be better to be careful as for some years now he had found being good to be almost out of the question.
~ Anthony Powell
I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.
~ Anthony Trollope
If it comes to be a question of soul-saving, Mr. Bunce, I shan't save my place at the expense of my conscience." "Not if you knows it, you mean. But the worst of it is that a man gets so thick into the mud that he don't know whether he's dirty or clean. You'll have to wote as you're told, and of course you'll think it's right enough. Ain't you been among Parliament gents long enough to know that that's the way it goes?
~ Anthony Trollope
No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.
~ Anthony Trollope
There has generally been a hard contest in the man's breast between loyalty to his party and strong personal convictions, the result of which has been an inability on the part of the struggler to give even a silent support to a measure which he has disapproved.
~ Anthony Trollope
Yes; — exactly. But what is to be the end of it? Is he to be allowed to ruin you and Hetta? It can't go on long." "You wouldn't have me throw him over." "I think he is throwing you over. And then it is so thoroughly dishonest, — so ungentlemanlike! I
~ Anthony Trollope
But he was a man who could not make his reason subordinate to his feelings. If the evidence against his friend was strong enough to send his friend for trial, how should he dare to discredit the evidence because the man was his friend?
~ Anthony Trollope
There is nothing pleasanter than all this, although a man when so treated does feel himself to look like a calf at the altar, ready for the knife, with blue ribbons round his horns and neck. Crosbie felt that he was such a calf, — and the more calf-like, in that he had not as yet dared to ask a question about his wife's fortune.
~ Anthony Trollope
Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.
~ Aristotle
Ik zou of niet meer dood willen of ik zou gewoon willen sterven. Alles wat daartussenin zit vind ik eigenlijk geen oplossing.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Then the question is, are we worried about the wishes of the patient or about the money involved?
~ Art Buchwald
He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This
~ Arthur C. Clarke
a real danger by giving it an absurd name, the designations were often facetious: the Godel Gremlin, the Mandelbrot Maze, the Combinatorial Catastrophe, the Transfinite Trap, the Conway Conundrum, the Turing Torpedo, the Lorenz Labyrinth, the Boolean Bomb, the Shannon Snare, the Cantor Cataclysm…
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The newborn Athena, suddenly knowing far more about the future than the humans who had created her, had immediately been faced with a dilemma.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The Cold Equations
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it into my hand.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
El asunto era bien simple: tenía miedo de sí mismo y de lo que estaba dispuesto a hacer para mantenerla a salvo.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Law enforcement all the way? It was that or become a criminal.
~ Shirlee McCoy