Quotes About Dilemma

It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.

I mean it's like trying to decide between James Dean and Elvis. Seriously, who could make that choice?

Im Grunde, erkannte sie, stimmt es gar nicht, dass man als Mensch freie Entscheidungen trifft. Wenn es um wichtige Dinge geht, dann wählt man nicht "frei", sondern man wählt die Option, die man für die bessere hält - und das Problem ist, dass man das meistens nicht weiß. Also entscheidet man eigentlich nicht, sondern man rät, und das mit mehr oder weniger Glück.

Now he had to decide--what was the right thing to do? Something that required courage. Something that was frightening, because the unknown was lying in wait on the other side.

As soon as a man has chosen a side in war, he's already picked the wrong one.

Confronting this question takes us beyond a world where the line between good and evil is sharp and bright, into a gray confusion where navigation was soul-trying work.

The problem of the 1850s--how (for Southerners) to preserve slavery without destroying the Union--was a practical problem specific to a particular time and place. But the moral problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is a timeless one that, sooner or later, confronts us all.

No tragedy is greater than that of a single person who is afraid to do the right thing

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

He saw in that instant a life he could not conceive of opening before him, a hopeless abyss. Either way he was doomed: He did what was wrong, and condemned himself, or he did what was right, and remained a ghost.

I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I'd rather step back and weigh my options.

The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It's a difficult, and weird, situation.

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

I just think it's really important that we don't put people in a position where they're trying to decide between their health and wellbeing and their fundamental right to vote.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I am, of course, judged by my acts, but do they really afford a true key to my character? I think not.

I just thought 'Blue' was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who's living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she's telling.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

I'm a constant waffler. I've said to anyone I've ever dated, 'Asking me to choose a restaurant is going to be a conversation that's going on for a while.'