Quotes About Dilemma

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

The trouble with religious morality comes not from morality's being inescapably pure, but from religion's being incurably unintelligible.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?

At such times he would think, 'What will I do if she does not love me as much as I love her?' A terrible reply came from his heart, 'Kill her.

The human mind holds tightly to those things it can't reconcile.

I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.

But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?

Bir olanaks?zl??a inanmak istemeyebilir ki?i, ama onu kabul etmek gerekince de içi parçalanmadan ya?am?n? sürdürebilir. Oysa Düzeltmenin yaln?zl???, yeryüzünde sönen her yüzeyle ac?la??yor, daha, daha daha ac?la??yorsa çok dü?ünüp çözümünü bulamad??? bir sorun kar??s?nda eli kolu ba?l? kalmas?ndan.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.