Quotes About Dilemma

We now have two homes," I bleated to my wife, fishing out the cyanide capsule my accountant had given me in the event things had taken precisely this turn.

The truth is you never know when you have to rely on Aristotle or Confucius when faced with choosing to hit a lamppost or running over a man coming from Zabar's with fresh bagels.

You're a good friend, Apollodorus, but would you rather see me put to death justly or unjustly?

the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims...

and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice," Hanalea said. "When that time comes, choose love.

You'd choose him over me?" "He ain't the one making me choose.

No basta con distinguir el bien del mal. Necesitas el coraje necesario para hacerlo correcto, incluso cuando lo que más quieres en este mundo es hacer lo que está mal.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

Sometimes only a lie can save you.

He didn't tell me who had the abortion, Mum, just where. And that isn't covered by the confidentiality of confession?

Debemos ser capaces —algo extremadamente difícil— de decir no sólo sí o no a una determinada realidad y también a las personas amadas, sino que es necesario continuar amándolas incluso condenando sus acciones y continuar condenando sus acciones aunque sin dejar de amarlas.

There are still many unseen, unvisited places in the world where decency of life is needed. Poverty is not the problem, but access to better living is the perennial dilemma.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Entre les jeunes mariés ça va trop bien ou ça va trop mal. Et je ne sais pas lequel vaut le mieux. Mais ça ne va jamais tout seul.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

But at what price? What would she have to block out, just to go from one day to the next? You'll never understand the choice I've had to make. Either way, her life is over. Living like that; or prison. It's the end. Either one will break her.

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.

They always say, we'll just do another year. It's called the golden handcuffs.