Quotes About Dilemma

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

It was compassion. The tragic kind of compassion, the kind that sacrifices itself and sees that sacrifice as the only choice and thus no choice at all, one that must be accepted without hesitation.

Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.' 'And necessity is often a lie

As much as it grieves me to say, there are times when getting what one wants yields nothing but confusion. It turns out that what one wants is in fact not at all what one wants. Worse is when you simply don't know what you want. You'd think death would discard such trials. If only it did.