Quotes About Dilemma

Tell me which you could sooner do without, love or water." "What do you mean?" "I mean, could you live without love, or could you live without water?" "Why can't I have both?

The man who can't make a choice makes a choice.

We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

Just saying "celibacy is the solution" doesn't make it so. People have to be able to do it. Paul, a huge proponent of celibacy, knew this. The difficulty that divorced people have maintaining lifelong celibacy was part of the pastoral dilemma that forced us to take a closer look at our very restrictive policies regarding remarriage, policies that most contemporary pastors are unfamiliar with because it was the controversy of an earlier era.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

Every question selects a field of battle.

We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.

Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.

Flexibility can come at the cost of increased complexity.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don't do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what we ought to do.

Any of us can see, of course, that there is a conflict in our lives between adventure and discipline, or evil and virtue, or freedom and security. But these are only phrases we use to describe an ambivalence that troubles us, and to which we never seem able to find an answer.

but it was one of those all-too-common moments in New York when one is faced with a damnable set of options.

Don't ask me to choose between an old love and the new. That's no choice at all.

Orinan las ranas? le preguntaron al lobezno santiago de raollet sus discipulos. Lo ignoro, respondio, pero preferiria la muerte a tener que admitir que si.

If a child is kidnapped from hell and carried to heaven, should we condemn the kidnapper?

Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

O excesso de animalidade deforma o homem cultural; o excesso de cultura cria animais doentes. Este dilema mostra toda a insegurança que o erotismo traz ao homem. No fundo, é algo muito poderoso que, como a natureza, pode ser dominado e usado, como se fosse impotente. Mas o triunfo sobre a natureza se paga muito caro. A natureza dispensa quaisquer declarações de princípios, contenta-se com tolerância e sábias medidas.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.