Quotes About Dilemma

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody

The most preferable of evils.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

but sometimes doing the wrong thing was also right.

There would be no point asking Sarah because she was incapable of making a decision. If Cecilia asked her if she wanted tea or coffee, she would sit for a full minute, her forehead furrowed as she agonized over the pros and cons of each beverage, before finally saying, "Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give her a seizure.

She still had no solution, no way out, but for just this moment she was sitting opposite someone who understood.

It was the lesser of two evils.

Who knew what she would have done really;

handbag strap tangled around her chair.

All these pulls on me that cancel one another out like an algebraic equation I can't solve.

Why were all the handsome ones always such bastards?

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon—the smallest of compromises, the little roundings off or slight recastings of one emotion as another that is a tad nicer or more flattering.

Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l'esistenza per il bene di un'altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a volte è un'inutile scappatoia.

Shep's plight clearly illustrated that there was no point to anything and there was no relationship between virtue and reward and there never had been.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.

Do you love him?' 'Yes.' 'Do you love him enough to hurt a lot of people who don't deserve to be hurt?' 'How do you expect me to answer that?' 'It's a tough question, but you do need to answer it. Not now, but over the next hours and days.

If the hero hasn't turned up, you may have to settle for the villain." "If the villain's the one who turns up, he is the hero.

Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.

I'm almost always in a predicament.

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.