Quotes About Dilemma

In order to destroy the world, it becomes necessary to save it.

You have a decision to make and right now too little information for making it." By chance or instinct, she had hit on the type of reasoning that could move my grandfather

Ultimately, Bosch was confounded

MICHAEL CONNELLY TWO KINDS OF TRUTH

Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason.

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

Loyalty may be good news, but it is rarely good advice.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Míralos, lo que parecen los que han vendido la vida y el alma por un poco de bienestar. No, a eso no juego yo.

It's Laissez-Faire Until You Get In Deep Shit

One of Leibowitz's favorite stories was about a donkey placed equidistant from two bundles of hay. In the story the donkey can't decide which bundle of hay is closer to him, and so dies of hunger.

If the omnivore's dilemma is to determine what is good and safe to eat amid the myriad and occasionally risky choices nature puts before us, then familiar flavor profiles can serve as a useful guide, a sensory signal of the tried and true. To an extent, these familiar blends of flavor take the place of the hardwired taste preferences that guide most other species in their food choices. They have instincts to steer them; we have cuisines.

Nuestra cultura codifica las reglas para comer sabiamente en una complicada estructura de tabúes, rituales, recetas, modales y tradiciones culinarias que nos evitan tener que enfrentarnos de nuevo al dilema del omnívoro en cada comida.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.