Quotes About Dilemma

I know I will have to do the right thing and return her to her father, but it is ripping my heart apart.

Here was the conundrum: they could fight elsewhere in 1942, or they could fight in Europe in 1943, but they could probably not do both. They must choose.

There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created

They were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created

There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.

Everybody could see when something was troubling Christine--the writers kept asking, 'What's wrong with her?' But she never came to me directly to say she wasn't happy. That was not her way.

Sometimes a person really must choose between two good things. Two good things, thought Flora. I would choose the thing that involved a cat.

Glad to see you, Pettigrew. Are you defending the bigamy to-morrow?" "Alas! I am neither prosecuting nor defending. In fact, I am here on false pretences. For the time being, I am the lowest thing in the scale of human creation." The Clerk's bushy eyebrows met in a frown. "You're not going to tell me you've been summoned on a jury?" he said incredulously.

Daily he was called upon to solve the insoluble, to divine the truth between competing perjuries, to apportion derisory incomes among innumerable creditors,

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Nannie loved babies and sometimes she so longed to hold a tiny baby in her arms that she was tempted to give in her notice and look for another post … but on the other hand she loved the Ayrton children and could not make up her mind to leave them.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?

With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover.

What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Going to rehearsals was too depressing, and missing rehearsals was also depressing, so it was like a vicious circle.

This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

I loved 'Casablanca.' You know, right vs. wrong. I think I like a movie where there is a victory, right over wrong, but there's always some price to be paid.

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.