Quotes About Dilemma

I shake my head, horrified. "How can you say that? We've stayed free. We've struggled so hard to stay free." She shrugs. "Maybe. Or maybe we've been captured by what you call freedom.

Who would you rather have? A leader who is unthinkingly loyal to opinions you disagree with? Or one who is insincere about opinions you share? A fool or a hypocrite? Too often, it seems, these are our only options. I don't know the answer.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians was next to impossible.

For an All-Expenses-Paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off it's wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

La vie nous met parfois dans des situations dont nous ne pouvons nous extraire qu'en renonçant aux valeurs que nous défendons...

Život nas ponekad stavlja u situacije iz kojih ne možemo iza?i a da ne pogazimo vrednosti koje branimo.

Qué puede importar la verdad cuando en el lado opuesto se concentra la vida?

people do, in fact, act against their moral convictions and this is an unhappy fact about ourselves'.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

The lesson of her days, Dianora thought, was simply this: that love was not enough. Whatever the songs of the troubadours might say. Whatever hope it might seem to offer, love was simply not enough to bridge the chasm in her world.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a 'less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Come: there shall be such islanding from grief, And small communion with the master shore. Twang they. And I incline this ear to tin, Consult a dual dilemma. Whether to dry In humming pallor or to leap and die. Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.

Faith is born out of suffering, and suffering is faith's most powerful contradiction. This is the Christian dilemma. The only meaningful Christian response is to resist unjust suffering and to accept the painful consequence of that resistance.

Have you ever had one of those intoxicated night and BAM! You're stuck with this problem.

Yet it is clear that we cannot choose not to choose, for not choosing is a choice from which consequences flow, and the inner split between soul and world widens.

Will ye, ay or nay?

Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?

Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one innocent person to be wrongfully condemned.

He allowed himself to think that in certain circumstances he would rob his bank but, as these circumstances never arose, his life rolled out evenly—an adventureless tale.

The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree-trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like egg-shells, the consuming passion in the breast of the average man is to get out of the way. Between the physical fear of going forward and the moral fear of turning back, there is a predicament of exceptional awkwardness.

He warned that those "who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.