Quotes About Dilemma

There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

The issue is whether the orders are morally acceptable or not, and that question is not answered by anti-intellectual demands of obedience.

Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

And yet to every bad, there is a worse.

Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?

Qué me dice, Starling? —Digo que maldita sea, señor Crawford. ¿Qué dice usted?

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

Principle is principle, of course, and terror on a gray morning is another thing.

In a fallen world, it was hard to do unambiguous good.

The dilemma, my dear sir, the tragedy, begins where nature has been cruel enough to split the personality, to shatter its harmony by imprisoning a noble and ardent spirit within a body not fit for the stresses of life. Have you heard of Leopardi, Engineer, or you, Lieutenant? An unhappy poet of my own land, a crippled, ailing man, born with a great soul, which his sufferings were constantly humiliating and dragging down into the depths of irony—its lamentations rend the heart to hear.

I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently.... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow—I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!

Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility.

Results have not been encouraging. We seem up against a dilemma built into Nature, much like the Heisenberg situation. There is nearly complete parallelism between analgesia and addiction. The more pain it takes away, the more we desire it. It appears we can't have one property without the other, any more than a particle physicist can specify position without suffering an uncertainty as to the particle's velocity—

he had given the Kaffir a choice

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!" Of course it is! It's a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I'm going to save this dress at all costs." - Sam to Clare

He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn't know when he's going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he's going, or who he's going to help, or what exactly he's up to!" Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.

His love is both pure and terrifying at the same time. Will his choice bring him satisfaction?

Liam stared at her, his gaze glittering hot with something she was afraid to identify because it made her knees weak and she couldn't breathe from the intensity and pace of her heart pounding away in her chest. He wanted to kiss her. He didn't want to want to kiss her—she could read that in his expression, as well—but she knew he did. And right, then. Cop or not—mistake that it would be— she wanted him to kiss her, too.

We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing.

Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?