Quotes About Dilemma

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

Yeah, I don't know whether it would be a coach's dream to coach the world No1 or a double-edged sword.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

I like everything about women except marrying one. But Grandmother is adamant. Either I marry or I'll be disinherited.

then. She needed to make a decision. "Which room is yours?" Weston tugged at the bottom of his vest with both hands, pulling it tight against his body. "Uh, you can stay wherever you want.

But he could see only two ways past his fear of loving Beth—drawing closer or pulling away, and neither was tenable.

then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

Waarom zou hij zich verzetten? Uit morele overwegingen? Kom nu; als je daaraan deed, kon je beter de rest van je leven thuis blijven zitten met dichtgespijkerde ramen en de deur op de grendel - dan had je een kleine kans dat je een fatsoenlijk mens bleef; alleen was er dan niemand die wist hoe fatsoenlijk je was.

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

The shortest distance between two points may well be the wrong way on a one way street.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

The fat was in the fire, and the problem was dodging the spatters.

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience.

I'd rather be poor but together," he said. I thought about my own father, and the choice he'd made to go north, the price we'd paid for that decision. Was my uncle right? Was it better to be poor but together? Or was it better to try to find a better life, even if it meant breaking up your family?

what I did, I didn't want

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.