Quotes About Dilemma

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.

Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good?

Justice. If only we knew what it was.

We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.

You take your reader to the cliff's edge. There you hang your hero by his fingertips. You are not to behave like a compassionate human being. You are not a rescuer. Your job is to avoid rescuing the hero as long as possible. You leave him hanging.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The introvert's dilemma is that we might not get a lot of invitations for the kind of socializing we like best--small, mellow gatherings. In other words, the kind of socializing other introverts like to do. Because, let's face it: We're introverts. We're all at home waiting to be invited to do introvert things. Which means, of course, that none of us are getting the invitations we crave. It's an introvert standoff.

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

People lose half of their health to gain wealth, and they lose half of their wealth to regain their health. When I had all my teeth. I had no nuts to chew, and now that I got the nuts, I have no teeth to chew. Caught up between gaining and losing, they lose their entire life.

The British writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, an astute observer of Greece who spent most of his life there, called it the "Helleno-Romaic" dilemma, pitting the archetypal categories of Hellenes and Romioi against each other.

goodness and truth have never yet succeeded in curing humanity or even a single human being.

She'd explained to Annabelle that she'd discovered her fiancé was cheating on her a few days before the wedding. When Annabelle had asked her why she hadn't simply canceled the ceremony, she'd shrugged and said, "My dress had a ten-foot train.

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Victory cannot tolerate truth.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.