Quotes About Dilemma

That was the refinement of his supreme scruple—

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

Should he risk the great reward of his divine faith for the sake of a single deed of human love?

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

I could've made more of an effort to go back to theatre but I fell into the trap of recognition, fame and money.

You become trapped doing bad movies. And, the thing that makes it difficult to stop making them is that you get good money.

I was on the road with my brothers, traveling around the world, and things would be going well, and what would happen was that I'd be in a city, and there would be no way I'd know where to eat because I would only be there for 12 hours, and we wouldn't know where to go.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

If the truth is Impermissible, then we'll eventually be breaking all the rules.

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.