Quotes About Dilemma

I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!

It wavered in style between the formal and the chummy, beginning 'Dear Madam', and ending 'So you see what a spot I'm in, ducky,' but it did present the facts.

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth

I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you? Why don't you work? Work? said young Bingo, surprised. What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.

Science, with a thousand triumphs to her credit, has not yet succeeded in discovering the correct reply for a young man to make who finds himself in the appalling position of being apologized to by a pretty girl.

But, Ed! Say! Are you going to let him get away with it? Am I going to let him get away with it! said Mr. Cootes, annoyed by the foolish question. Wake me up in the night and ask me! But what are you going to do? Do! said Mr. Cootes. Do! I'll tell you what I'm going to... He paused, and the stern resolve that shone in his face seemed to flicker. Say, what the hell am I going do? he went on somewhat weakly.

In this life, you can choose between two courses. You can either shut yourself up in a country house and stare into tanks, or you can be a dasher with the sex. You can't do both.

Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.

I'm dashed if I know what's going to happen to me. I am the thingummy of what's-its-name. You look it, said Mike.

It was a dashed tricky thing, of course, to have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right.

And if I didn't burn the thing, how else could I get rid of it? Fellows on the battle-field eat dispatches to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy, but it would have taken me a year to eat Uncle Willoughby's Recollections.

Günlük yaÅŸam?m?z? sürdürmemiz için sahip olduÄŸumuz çeÅŸit çeÅŸit duygular?n aras?ndan bir seçim yapmak, bizim için bir üstünlük belirtisi mi yoksa derin bir üzüntü nedeni mi?

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

Didn't you find it all … rather unsatisfying?" "Yes, but I couldn't seem to see a way out. It was like being three different people, and they all wanted to go different ways." A slight smile. "The result was I went nowhere.

Must be quite nice, really. A foot on each side of the fence. Long as you don't mind what it's doing to your balls.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

I know what I'd do in the matter, but I'm a dedicated villain. -Roland Otton

men of the modern world exist in a continual and flagrant antagonism between their consciences and their way of life."1 There

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.