Quotes About Dilemma

Scott, you're telling me to pad my hours. Isn't that cheating?" "Every place except a law firm.

Given the world, given the situation, the question that remains is whether having children is a statement of hope, an insistence on the beauty and meaningfulness and basic worth of being here, or an act of human sacrifice.

Conflict is the essence of a novel. Conflict, conflict, and more conflict. Oh, and choices.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

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

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?

Miniature Emilie came along. Lincoln could tell she was watching him, but he tried not to encourage her. He didn't want to betray Beth. They wouldn't let you ride Splash Mountain, he thought.

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?