Quotes About Dilemma

In neighborhoods like the oneI grew up in, places that are poor in proxy but rich in rhetoric, the hollies have a saying - I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between "guilty" and "innocent." Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn't I be "neither" or "both"? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, "Your Honor, I plead human.

La otra opción es quedarnos de brazos cruzados mientras nuestras petroleras compiten con los chinos a ver quién soborna mejor.

Denying sin makes a liar out of God and denies the message of his Word. Here's the bottom line—either God, in his Word, is true when he says that you have a problem you can't solve or you're right that you're not so bad after all. It can't be both ways.

I am very good at playing monkey games with my morality.

la solución a todo problema es siempre otro problema.

but I'm a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

Sometimes it's possible for a decision to be right and wrong at the same time

The real world didn't well accommodate principles.

How can people be punished when they are innocent?

Cavett. "What makes you stuck?" Simon. "Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck

read a story about a Zen seeker who goes to the master and sits across the table at tea time. The Zen master holds a stick in his hand, and he says, "If you drink your tea, I will hit you with this stick. If you don't drink your tea, I will hit you with this stick." So what do you do? Well, I think I figured it out. Take away the stick.

He wanted them both, but there was no having everything, and love couldn't help him now. Nothing could help him but bravery, and what was that anyhow?

I hoped that poor soul in the rowboat had found his way to shore. But not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved.

What does it mean to be human, to be good, to be moral, to be all three at once? It means that flawed beings often must choose between two flawed options.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Qué haré? Mas ¿para qué estudio lo que haré, si es evidente que, por más que lo prevenga, que lo estudie y que lo piense, en llegando la ocasión ha de hacer lo que quisiere el dolor, porque ninguno imperio en sus penas tiene?

y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

But exacerbating those differences was exactly what Nixon had in mind. Years later, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman would write that the president took great pleasure "in constructing a political dilemma for the labor union leaders and the civil rights groups.

See? They only get idiots to do these jobs." John G. stands there with his eyelids throbbing. Should he take a swing at the guy? After all, he's got nothing left to lose. On the other hand, this job is the only thing between him and the abyss. Everything else that marked his place in the world is gone. He struggles to decide for a few seconds and then goes back to the motorman's cabin.

Anytime I fall for a dame like you I hope that somebody will take me outside an' cut my head off quick because I would rather be tied up to a coupla wild alligators than get myself hitched on to you.