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Quotes About Dilemma

Complexity offers refuge from choice, and thus from action. In most situations, most of us would prefer to do nothing. Sic transit gloria mundi.
~ Greg Iles
IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
~ Greg Iles
You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!
~ Greg Keyes
Doing the right thing feels like shit.
~ Gregg Olsen
We need to figure out what's best," she said. "Do you think you can give us some time, maybe wait this out? You'll be eighteen in four years.
~ Gregg Olsen
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Remember,' Khader said insistently, resting his hand on my forearm to emphasise his words. 'Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong--that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.
~ Gregory David Roberts
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate always gives you two choices, Scorpio George once said: the one you should take, and the one you do.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate always gives you two choices: the one you should take, and the one you do.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The wrong thing, for the right reasons.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong—that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right?
~ Gregory David Roberts
it is possible to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.' He smiled again, for the first time since the story of the escape had begun. 'This will come back to us, at another time. I have raised it in this way because it is a very important point about how we do live our lives, and how we should live our lives.
~ Gregory David Roberts
is possible to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
~ Gregory David Roberts
La cosa sbagliata... per un motivo giusto.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Nel mondo è tutto sbagliato, e la cosa peggiore che si possa fare è continuare a vivere. Eppure bisogna continuare a vivere. E questo dilemma che ci fa credere alla bugia che esistano un'anima e un Dio che si preoccupa delle sorti.
~ Gregory David Roberts
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate. And no
~ Gregory David Roberts
is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong—that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong things for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right and that we admit the wrong, that we do not lie to ourselves and convince ourselves that what we do is right.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and evil. And until we have one, we will go on justifying our own actions, while condemning the actions of others.
~ Gregory David Roberts
One of the agonising truths for a battle medic is that you pray as hard and almost as often for men to die as you pray for them to live.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.
~ Nina Easton
I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
~ Martin Freeman