Quotes About Dilemma

Schools create the problems they seem to exist to solve.

Did you rejoice for the one you saved, or weep for the one you lost? She could not do both, so she wept.

Den intellektuelle borde inte bli tvingad att förstöra det som han ägnat sitt liv åt att bygga upp.

Though I felt uneasy at the thought of writing an instrument of slavery… through weakness I gave way and wrote it; but… said before my master and the Friend that I believed slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet… I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience.

Odd, don't you think? We could drown a litter of kittens that is no sort of threat to us – but these creatures we shall carefully rear.

The alternative is the sword over your heads,' he said. 'I know,' I agreed unhappily. 'But that isn't the way. A sword inside us would be worse.

You know, it set you at war with yourself.

Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Ró?a. She didn't have to choose.

All I meant was we all make choices in life. I don't think your mom made bad choices. It's just...if you make a left turn, you can't make a right turn at the same time

Everybody's brave when they don't have any choice

Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.

Obsesia sinuciderii e datul celui ce nu poate nici s? tr?iasc?, nici s? moar?, ?i care nu uit? niciun moment aceast? dubl? imposibilitate.

Pentru c? am în sânge contrazicerea,toate elanurile mele se anuleaz? reciproc.Chiar în momentul în care iau o hot?râre,o hot?râre contrar? o aboleÅŸte.Uneori,din fericire,o furie subit? vine s? tranÅŸeze disputa ÅŸi m? sileÅŸte s? trec la fapt?.F?r? aceast? izbucinire neprev?zut?,aÅŸ fi condamnat la o veÅŸnic? nemiÅŸcare.

O la existencia o yo!». Uno de los dos debe ceder.

L'uomo attenderà sempre l'avvento della giustizia; e, affinché trionfi, rinuncerà alla libertà, per poi rimpiangerla.

The abundance of solutions to the aspects of existence is equalled only by their futility.

Sein heisst in der Klemme sein.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Philanthropic zeal supplies admirable motive power, but makes a very indifferent compass; and of two evils it is better, perhaps, that our ship shall go nowhere than that it shall go wrong, that it should stand still than that it should run upon the rocks.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.

Mi è capitato di vedere gente allinearsi al punto di vista altrui e mantenere segrete le proprie opinioni soltanto in nome di minimi profitti, nessuno vuole assumersi responsabilità, tutti preferiscono starsene nel mezzo, con vigliaccheria, così che le cose appaiono sempre più torbide e alla fine ci si ritrova imprigionati all'interno di una specie di rigida cornice: ho visto questa storia ripetersi all'infinito.

Sometimes the right thing to do... is the wrong thing.

E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.