Quotes About Dilemma

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

Doing the wrong thing to do the right thing

The tide had turned, and the worst possible thing had happened: my heroes had become the "bad guys," and one didn't dare say otherwise.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

I had figured out that it was a bad idea, but, well, it´s hard to argue with love, even when it´s making you do something really stupid.

The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

At times, when everything is good, you enjoy your peak, but you are sometimes not able to differentiate between right and wrong - everything seems to be good even if you know it's bad. So this is what I have learnt.

Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

Holger didn't feel like an orgy, but had no way to refuse.

To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma.

This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.