Quotes About Dilemma

He was very well aware that in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin. "But

But I am alive still. Now what's to be done? what's to be done?" he said in despair.

So others are even more afraid than I am!" he thought. "So that's all there is in what is called heroism! And heroism! And did I do it for my country's sake? And how was he to blame, with his dimple and blue eyes? And how frightened he was! He thought that I should kill him. Why should I kill him? My hand trembled. And they have given me a St. George's Cross… . I can't make it out at all.

Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.

He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.

Temia como que manchar naquele meio impuro, vicioso, a imagem cândida que tinha na mente.

A man knits and knits, and then entangles himself.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

In any compromise between food and poison," Ayn Rand writes, "it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Survival breeds its own brand of morality," Silvio said.

It is just as easy to use a good principle for bad ends as it is to use a bad principle for good ends.

For the time being there is only one alternative: to be the hammer or the anvil.

Moral compasses" are often invoked, as though religion always points north. It doesn't seem to have occurred to the graybeards that religion and morality are not synonymous

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

They had a choice to make: go on, or go home.

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.