Quotes About Dilemma

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better...

I love you—oh, how terribly I love you—but I could not live in your world for more than a little time. The stars have a hold on me; I would miss them, and I—I would be torn in two, Georyn.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

Z?o w??czy?o si? w nasze kody etyczne i sta?o si? dobrem. Fatalnym, rakowatym dobrem.

We live in a world of myriad conflicting loyalties. It is not purity, but the nature of the balance we achieve that displays our true character.

I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.

Doing the right thing isn't always the right thing to do!

If you don't know this by now, mate, you'd better write it down and learn it by heart: the right thing is not always the same as what's in your pretty little rule book.

Often the discrepancy works for us: people don't know who to worry about, the little girl with the gun or the big guy apparently without, and the distraction of deciding keeps them off balance.

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above

For Zoe Rutherford the answer was: everything. She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered the ceiling, a "castoff" spray that permeated the pimply white paint. It looked a little as though

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along.