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Quotes About Dilemma

Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.
~ Oliver Hardy
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
~ James David Barber
A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
~ James Russell Lowell
This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
~ Ugo Betti
The problem is to be faced and the solution to be shirked.
~ Bernard Shaw, 1910
Maybe he does have a choice to make, but everything I feel, everything I know says absoloutely that choice will be you She speaks French and Italian. That bitch.
~ J.D Robb
I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.
~ J.D. Robb
There's always a way out. You just have to pay the price, whether it's money, status, the emotional hit, or all of that and more. Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm tired of every time I have a moment with you, you put murder between us." "There is murder between us." "No. If anything, that's what brought us here. Is that the problem? You can't shed Lieutenant Dallas long enough to feel?" "That's who I am." "Then that's who I want.
~ J.D. Robb
Out of terrible times, perhaps more than ordinary ones, heroes and villains spring. Sometimes there's little difference between them but a choice, and the choice made defines them. Look at the choices.
~ J.D. Robb
What's the problem?
~ J.D. Robb
Will do cop work for sex? - It's become my daily mantra.
~ J.D. Robb
I want to give someone a job. Doing what? That's the thing. I don't know. And actually, I want YOU to give someone a job. His eyebrows rose. You want me to give someone a job doing... you don't know what? What's the point of having somebody who employs half the planet anyway if you can't say, 'Give this girl a job'?
~ J.D. Robb
War is about: compelling a choice on someone who would not otherwise make it.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.
~ J.R. Ward
Devina] "You know, Adrian, you ever get bored with being a Goody Two-shoes, you could come over to my side." "Because you have cookies, right." Those black eyes returned to his own. "And so much more." "Well, I'm on a diet. Sorry—but thanks for the invite.
~ J.R. Ward
That's where you come in. I want into that guy's mind, and you need to tell me how to do it. Ad shrugged. Personally, I'd just use a hacksaw, but— There are potential consequences and side effects, Eddie said carefully. Like what? Well, worst case... he could end up like Adrian.
~ J.R. Ward
Não me apaixonarei por ti. – disse ela. – Não posso permitir isso. Não posso. – Está bem. O meu amor chega para os dois.
~ J.R. Ward
The outcome was moral even if the method was not. And sometimes that was the best you could do.
~ J.R. Ward
I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.
~ Jack Campbell
Trouble is, what would I do with her once I won her?- it's like winning an angel in hell and you are then entitled to go down with her to where it's worse or maybe there'll be light, some, down there, maybe it's me's crazy-
~ Jack Kerouac
Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.
~ Jack London
A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
~ Alice Dreger