Quotes About Dilemma

I had no idea how to square that particular circle.

Aliera said, "You are a Jhereg." Mario said, "You are the most beautiful woman who has ever lived, or ever will live, in the Empire or anywhere else." "Well," said Aliera. "I am," remarked Mario, "confronted by a difficult decision." "Life seems to be full of them," agreed Aliera. "What is yours?" "Whether to continue running for my life, or to stay here and look at you.

I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of me just doesn't know how much I believe in that, as much as I want to.

I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

How far do you go in following orders? So many people use it as an excuse, right? 'I was following orders.' But what does that mean?

Certainly the extraordinary abundance of food in America complicates the whole problem of choice. At the same time, many of the tools with which people historically managed the omnivores dilemma have lost their sharpness here or simply failed. As a relatively new nation drawn from many different immigrant populations, each with its own culture of food American's have never had a single, strong, stable, culinary tradition to guide us.

The danger was not that I would do wrong, but that I would do nothing

We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress

The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.

No...if the world demanded their deaths in return for safety, she would have watched it burn.

Bilim ÅŸüphesiz ki iki taraf? keskin bir k?l?çt?r; çözüme ulaÅŸt?rd??? say?da problem yarat?r, ve yaratt??? her problem bir öncekinden hep daha zordur.

I couldn't let her speak or I would never be able to keep my promise.)

But when the choice is between doing nothing and doing harm, surely nothing is the wiser option?

She could worry about it, do it, or not do it.

There was no way to solve a problem for people who didn't know they had one.

Tego jeszcze brakowaÅ'o!" - i od tej chwili myÅ›li Stiopy pobiegÅ'y dwutorowo, ale, jak to siÄ™ zwykle dzieje w chwili katastrofy, w jednym kierunku i w ogóle diabli wiedzÄ… dokÄ…d.

I can't escape from here. Not because it's too high but because I've nowhere to go.

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.