Quotes About Dilemma

Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.

She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly

he went down the stairs, "no choice, no choice

I am trapped, and for once in my life I see no path through these Rings. Four

Listen, I know everything you're saying is true. Ellie does need a good man. She needs someone steady. Someone who can offer her a life full of love and security.Unfortunately, she wants me. - Mason

Maybe she wanted too many things. To get closer to Nate - but to just stay friends. To make love with him - but keep her heart uninvolved. To stay with him forever - but never commit.

freedom from the control imposed by medication loses its meaning when the only alternatives are death and insanity.

How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days? There was no going back.

Why, Mr. Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?

ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

When Derek hesitated, Chloe said, If you leave, either I go with you and take the same risk or stay here, with strangers. Without you. He scowled at her. Yes, it's a low blow, she said. But I'll use whatever works right now.

You could stay here," I said softly. "If he does leave." He rubbed his arms, like he was getting cold. His gaze was down, but his jaw was set in that way I knew well, ready to refuse. Only he didn't want to refuse. He wanted to know that if it came down to that, his dad leaving, he could stay here. I could see that worry and that need wearing away at his pride until finally he grunted, "Yeah. Okay.

This is the dilemma, the contradiction we cannot resolve. We do not want to be them. Yet we are fascinated by them, because every detail tugs at a buried memory.

If we light a fire, someone out boating might see us." "That's a good idea," Sam said. "Or it would be. If we had matches to light a fire. Or if anyone was actually out boating." "Why don't we just find a place to hide?" Hayley said. "That way, when someone does come, we can see if it's a real rescue or not." "How the hell are you going to tell the difference?" Sam said. "Ask them?

Sometimes doing the right thing was not nearly as easy as one might think. Which was perhaps why people did the wrong things so often.

It's another trap." Corey looked at me. "It…sounds like it," I said. "But if it's a good trap, then they really did let Hayley go. She's out here as bait." "So you think you can outsmart them and rescue her?" Sam said. "No, the smart thing to do is keep going." We argued about that, of course.

Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies.

But when you grab happiness you may let go of something more valuable --- your integrity. - Hugh Pilaster

Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took

Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.

He knew that saying, and he delivered the punch line: "But all the other ways are worse.

She tried reason, arguing with herself as much as with him. What's the point of breaking my vow to my father, in order to make a marriage vow to you? If I break the first vow, the second is worthless.

Then the Nazis offer them hope, and they ask themselves: What have I got to lose?

Même les gens les plus impitoyables ont parfois des scrupules.