Quotes About Dilemma

But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.

tantalizing possibilities. She hesitated, feeling trapped by a combination of her own desire to try everything, and a

But there is not room on the cross for two.

Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained without losing one's honor. An infernal circle whirling round and round, draggng me up and down with it.

Kehormatan memerlukan jumlah uang yang besar untuk membelanya, tetapi bahwa jumlah uang yang besar tidak dapat diperoleh tanpa kehilangan kehormatan seseorang. Sebuah lingkaran setan yang berputar-putar, menyeret saya naik dan turun bersamanya.

You never know whether this is a form of instinctive blackmail, and therefore, to be resisted, or whether it is real illness brought on in the other person by what you live by and believe in.

Maybe he should stop with the pot. But then he wouldn't be able to get stoned anymore, and that was hardly a solution.

That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

WAITRESS 1 Actually, the last thing I want is to be alone, but . . . the other last thing is to be with someone.

life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.

I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?

I can't interfere with my own past! Because that would mean I'd be interfering with my own past- to stop myself from interfering with my own past! THEN where would we be?!" - 6th Doctor

It crossed her mind to take the pledge, go on the wagon, but she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days.

Half a thou too small," he said. "The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it'ld be Right. As it is, it's Wrong, and you can't cheat about it." He smiled again. "Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn't it?

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator—the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.

He says it like he's doing it for my protection. But I don't know if he's trying to protect me from this neighborhood, or from Jade. Both are appreciated though, so whatever.

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.

Human problems are difficult things to solve. Sometimes a man may be drawn into a vicious circle, so that, having once entered it, he ceases to be himself.

I nodded, not yet realizing that as far as the world was concerned, what was best for the baby could mean something entirely different from what was best for me.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.