Quotes About Dilemma

My wife killed herself. He said, My wife took her life, like a rhyme. Do you blame yourself? She had often said it, that she would. She'd had every kind of treatment. Eventually it becomes hard to know how to handle it. Like Dora: I can always die, always die. Caro said, There is the damage on both sides.

Would you think I ought to give up my painting just for a home and a couple of lousy children with running noses?

After all, we're blessed with doctors. I brought him two doctors. So they argued with each other. One said operate, the other said don't. Meanwhile, the patient died.

Our rich man hopped back and forth to the big city, seeing the money-grabbing, advice-giving lawyers. This one said this, that one said that, and the third one said neither this nor that, but, as you'd expect, something entirely different.

I only wanted to be good—the trouble is that being good gets you nowhere.

I couldn't believe it. Riley didn't flip the puck into the net to put us ahead. He actually held onto the puck and continued around the Chiefs' net. It stunned the crowd into silence. Riley Judd had just given up a chance at his third goal of the game.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

el antiguo principio de minima non curat praetor, que entre lo bueno y lo malo existe todo un amplio grupo de cosas pequeñas e indiferentes, de las que nadie debe hacerse un reproche.

Não quebro muitas vezes a cabeça a propósito da questão do bem e do mal, mas, em média, descobri muito pouco «bem» entre os homens. Segundo o que deles sei, são na maioria escumalha, quer se reclamem da ética desta ou daquela doutrina, quer de nenhuma.

So now you know, Kristin, that I have compromised much, both my land and my honor. You would certainly be much better served if you stayed with Simon Andressøn." Kristin put her arms around his neck. "We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.

Mamaw says this is the problem with a lot of politicians. "They want to do right, but they're too scared to," she says.

What is the value of being a criminal investigator in a state run by criminals ?

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

The evil which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.

She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Now of all the cosmic problems yet unsolved, not cancer nor the future of poverty are the flustering questions, but these twain: Which is worse, not to wear evening clothes at a party at which you find every one else dressed, or to come in evening clothes to a house where, it proves, they are never worn? And: Which is worse, not to tip when a tip has been expected; or to tip, when the tip is an insult?

CREONTE Quale piaga è peggiore di un cattivo parente?»

Husband disappeared? Order in your lover instead.

I want him. Desperately. Even I simultaneously know that a lot of things I might want in life are not good choices.

I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

You chose to live, I chose to die.