Quotes About Dilemma

Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

Anne strove for honesty whenever possible, probably because it so often wasn't possible.

And what the hell was he going to do with Daphne? He didn't want to hurt her, couldn't bear to hurt her, actually, and yet he was doomed to do so simply by marrying her. He burned for her, ached for the day when he could lay her down and cover her body with his, slowly entering her until she moaned his name—

was the last person he wanted to see right now. Even the ghost of Napoleon, come down to slice a rapier through his gullet, would have been preferable.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

There is a fine line between guilt and innocence.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

On one hand, she would have bet any amount of money that Lock would behave like a perfect gentleman. On the other, having Deep right behind her was like lying unprotected in the jungle and knowing that a hungry panther was at her back. Still, panicking wasn't going to help anything. Have

The real trouble with war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

What was she supposed to do now? Swoon at his feet? Jenny bit back a grin as she wondered what he'd do if she did. If he attempted to catch her, she'd squash him flat.

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

la guerra convierte esas evanescentes diferencias en un abismo insondable. La vida y la muerte dejan de ser especulaciones de la razón para transformarse en un dilema urgente, inmediato, desesperado. La vida pasa a ser un cristal frágil y la muerte una posibilidad cercana. Sin

Partire? Per andare dove? [...] Questi non sono tempi da lasciare il proprio paese!»

he would take someone else? If she waited

Si tu joues au policier, ils joueront aux bandits. Si tu joues au bond Dieu, ils joueront aux diables. Si tu joues au geôlier, ils joueront aux prisonniers. Si tu es toi-même, ils seront bien embêtés. (p. 16)

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing his respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other and between which it is difficult to choose.