Quotes About Dilemma

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

There was a time when I thought that my career wasn't right for me, and I was caught up in a dilemma, but after I joined 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed,' I felt endless joy and interest in my work for the first time in a while.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist.

You can't kill everything bad and you can't save everyone good." "I'm not sure who the good ones are anymore." "Yes you are. Because you're one. It's just sometimes hard to admit to oneself." "Fuck.

How will you do it?" says Sinclair. "I'll know when I see the setup, but I imagine I'll basically just kill them all and take their stuff. Is that okay with everyone?" Sandoval says, "It's fine with me." "Me too," says Sinclair. Howard just grunts.

The future is a mess, the past is a wreck, and I'm center stage at the shit storm of the century.

I'm trying very hard not to think about anything I'm doing. Of all the iffy things I've ever done in my life, I've never had to ditch a body before. While it's giving me a migraine right now, I think the fact that I'm not an expert on corpse disposal says a lot of good things about me and my life choices.

Solutions are not the answer.

I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

We experience a powerful reluctance to narrow our options—so powerful that we often miss out on good opportunities in order to avoid losing the remote possibility of something better.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that one is still alive. At that point, one's choices are suicide, a life of bottomless self-disgust, and an attempt to live so as never to do such a thing again. Dewey recommends the third choice.

I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

yanked out my .38 and stepped back to the corner

Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

leadership often means having to choose between two bad options and that good men have to make decisions that have bad consequences.

We are too willing to reap death to save a hypothetical life.

Wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow", he said. "Don't, then. Stay home." "No. I guess I've got to go.