Quotes About Dilemma

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

That's not how I'd planned it to be. How did you plan it to be? I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious. I planned it to be a million different things, he replies. And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.

Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.

If there was no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad.

look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

That's the dilemma, isn't it? When you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

The thing about a trap is you get caught and can't get out. A maze has an exit. You just have to find it.

That's the dilemma isn't it? When you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

prayers to answer? Why would he cure my cancer, and let other poor buggers with the same condition die, not to mention the kids with leukaemia in the children's ward? Once he starts intervening in the course of nature, how does he decide when to stop?

This was for me one of those adult moments involving a choice. Do you shrug your shoulders and say, "I couldn't get it to work either," or do you tell the woman she spent the weekend trying to open a wine bottle with the broken knob to the dishwasher?

it caused one of Douglass's most challenging psychic dilemmas. He repeatedly faced the question of how uncompromising radicalism could mix with a learned pragmatism to try to influence real power, to determine how to condemn the princes and their laws but also influence and eventually join them.

Causes can be tricky masters," Harrington sighed. "It's really difficult to avoid checking your scruples at the door when you buy into one of them.

I hate time travel.

He is on the precipice of cheating, maybe, which in itself is a kind of thrill for him, and yet, if he thinks about it too much he knows it is the same thing. On the precipice or over the precipice, once you're there, you're there.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

You play grown-up long enough and you lose your perspective on right and wrong

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I could never, ever have an abortion.