Quotes About Dilemma

It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.

The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

Just because something is legal doesn't always make it right.

Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved.

The problem is solvable puzzle.

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

In modern civilization, there's three things you can do: Get a job, become a criminal, or lift your head up high and blow your brains out. Life ain't easy anymore.

One of the innate dilemmas of biography is that life is not much like a book. It rarely contains a clearly stated thesis, coherently developed. Life sprawls, stumbles, advances, retreats, gropes for the light switch, and once in a while makes intuitive leaps whose import is barely understood until later, if ever, by the leaper. Life seems to me an improvisation .

The most fundamental dillemma of all, which the international community to its detriment never resolved was a moral one. How could one combine moral imperative to alleviate suffering with the moral imperative not to let agression pay? Was it right to have opposed ethnic cleansing and instituted safe areas in eastern Bosnia, if one was unwilling to put one`s life at risk to protect people in those areas?....

As much as choice could sometimes be a burden, not having one was far worse.

Carter, who had scratches across his forehead, stepped in front of me and raised an eyebrow. "I'm not going to tell you to hold fire," he said. "But you have to start with either Gertie or that cat.

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it's utterly useless when you're in love.

Scissors. He'd pulled a credit card and a pair of scissors from the drawer. Which meant he could either bribe or stab his adversary. Or he could go into a frenzy and cut up Jill's credit card. That would confuse 'em.

Are you prepared then, to shoot a human being?" he asked, trying not to let Jenny sense his own internal unease. "It's not the same as shooting a duck or gazelle." Jenny's violet eyes met his straight on. "If that human being was about to harm any one of us, I'd feel worse about shooting the duck. It, at least, would have done nothing to deserve a bullet.

Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home." "I was." "What happened?" "I couldn't let her go.

I hope this doesn't come down to choosing between two of my best friends.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

FLIGHT OF FOLLY. WOMAN TRAPPED IN CAGE OF OPEN DOORS.

The difference is minding. I mind the resultant moral dilemma of having no answers. I never forget the fucking questions. They're always there, accusing me of having no answers yet. If there are no answers there is no point: a terror of absurdity. Logic will force me to do things where desire hasn't a chance.

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

The United States has poured more moral energy into improving race relations than into anything else in its history. And yet, in November 2008, race was still the American dilemma. The fact that it was still a dilemma despite so much effort fostered something like a yearning for miracles.

She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I'd like to make love to.

MAGIC secret. It was a prime example of the brutal choices that codebreakers must live with. Do you take risks to keep a secret that may save hundreds of thousands of future lives, or do you expose the secret to save a small number of lives right now? William once referred to this broad dilemma as "cryptologic schizophrenia," adding, "What to do? Thus far, no real psychiatric or psychoanalytic cure has been found for the illness.