Quotes About Dilemma

Freud was right in positing a death instinct, and the development of weapons of destruction makes our present dilemma plain: we either come to terms with our unconscious instincts and drives—with life and with death—or else we surely die.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

What ever was she going to do? She took the emery boards from the top left drawer and started doing her nails. She was going to play bridge, but before she did that she was going to have a scotch and soda and play a game of solitaire with the prettiest hands a woman with this many problems could have.

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.

He had never understood what was wrong and what was right, good and bad, what he wanted and did not want; he had never been able to solve the knotted snarl of his life because of the very complexity of that snarl, because of his indecision, because of the double responsibility he felt, and when, finally he had become man enough to solve it, it was too late, and too many forces had been set in motion.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynamak istiyor insan, bir yandan da k?l?na zarar gelsin istemiyor. Küçük oyunlar istemiyorum albay?m.

?nsan kald?r?m?n ortas?nda karars?z durursa, ya ate? isterler ya da adres sorarlar. Ba?ka bir ?ey sormazlar.

Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

no one had been able to give him a reason why people who had excellent reasons to suppose they would destroy themselves if they did a certain thing chose to do that thing anyway.

They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.

To them it's like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow

He felt the pull of investigation and the pull of escape, and swore with frustration.

Great cases like hard cases make bad law.

Oh, come, darling,' Guy protested, 'I didn't want to marry Sophie, but one has to be polite.

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

I knew all about the importance of dressmakers, because I'd spent my childhood with a woman permanently torn between the necessity of possessing beautiful clothes and the difficulty of paying for them.

The first level of understanding necessary to faith is becoming critically aware of our dilemma in life without God.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.