Quotes About Dilemma

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man?

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

Thing is, I'm still stuck here being your best friend while I'm falling in love with you more and more each day.

There's nothing worse than going on a huge food shopping trip, then being overwhelmed of the endless possibilities you can make.

Some ladies reallyarer content being the other woman.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

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.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

When the people are threatened with tyranny, they must choose either chains or guns.

I had come to the end of a path and I did not know which way to go. And there was the easy road to take and everyone was pushing me toward it. "What

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.

the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?