Quotes About Dilemma

This leads to the central dilemma of Fourth Generation war: what works for you on the physical (and sometimes mental) level often works against you at the moral level.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

For in the fatness of these pursy timesVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Why should I play the Roman fool; and dieOn mine own sword?

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

I am in bloodStepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

We would, and we would not.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.

all on my own up on some roof with no options, no choices, just boxed in on every side between different things that I don't want - that nobody would want.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Something between a hindrance and a help.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

De verdad quieres que yo sea tu problema? ¿No te parezco demasiado gorda para problema, y a parte demasiado flaca para solución?

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.