Quotes About Dilemma

Being a Trump staffer had become an existential predicament: even if you wanted to get out, and almost all of them did, there was nowhere to go.

No national emergency, no solution, no offer, no progress. Trump was, for the entire nation to see, trapped.

La liberté, à titre personnel, j'étais plutôt contre; il est amusant de constater que ce sont toujours les adversaires de la liberté qui se trouvent, à un moment ou à un autre, en avoir le plus besoin.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Why did something so wrong have to feel so right

I gritted my teeth. "I don't like you." "My heart is breaking." "Screw you." He shrugged and then grimaced as if the wound on his shoulder caused him massive pain. "We can do that, too, if you like, but I'll need to be unchained first. Then again, we can bring the chains with us if you're into that sort of thing.

Deep down everyone suspected that Art was unlikely to survive for more than a few days and that any rescue attempt would endanger them all, but what were the alternatives? Abandon him? Stay and watch him die?

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

Here's the devil-and-all to pay.

Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

I must confess I get lost with all these shades of grey.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back." "Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on." "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!

Asking your friend to be a bridesmaid is one of the modern paradoxes: no one actually wants to do it, but everyone would be offended if you didn't ask.

Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nothing less than the curse of consciousness. Of moral responsibility. Of always, ever after, having to choose between what is right and what is wrong.

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.

I hated my job, but I liked that I could do it

the urgent question: Should I stay in this relationship or leave? She had been living a good life with her husband and two daughters. Located in a quiet neighborhood in the suburbs, her house was immaculate and beautifully decorated, her well-tended gardens extensive. She'd been married for fifteen years, apparently happily. She and her gentle husband, Doug, were devoted to raising their

What is good, and what is evil? Where do you draw the line between the two?" Now Yuriko was getting a little upset. I'm just in fifth grade, you know. They haven't taught us difficult things like that yet. "There

Morality is contraband in war.