Quotes About Dilemma

Most who face this dilemma will not end up dwelling in vehicles. Those who do are analogous to what biologists call an "indicator species"—sensitive organisms with the capacity to signal much larger shifts in an ecosystem.

Would you rather have food or dental work? Pay your mortgage or your electric bill? Make a car payment or buy medicine? Cover rent or student loans? Purchase warm clothes or gas for your commute?

life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living? Most who face this dilemma will

And you wish to protect a beautiful princess, with whom you have fallen in love. But do you understand how dire the situation is? He life and the lives of her sisters are hanging in the balance. You yourself risk death if you choose this path." "I don't care," Oliver said. He stood up and faced the bishop. "I don't care! I love Petunia, and this is what I'm choosing, right here and now.

So remember, this is definitely a screwed-if-you-do, screwed-if-you-don't situation. You just remember to say, "Screw them.

Why would you sacrifice today's freedom for a future that will always remain uncertain, no matter how carefully you plan for it?

The guilty pleasure defense. In my view if it's guilty, it ain't pleasure.

Ich lüge auch. Aber ich weiß es. Ich weiß, dass das System falsch ist. Bei uns in der Wirtschaft sieht das ein Blinder. Aber ich diene dem falschen System mit Hingabe. Denn im Rahmen des falschen Systems, dem ich mein bescheidenes Talent zur Verfügung stelle, sind die falschen Maßnahmen naturgemäß richtig und die richtigen sind begreiflicherweise falsch.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

He's like a man who's married a whore: he knows she's a whore, but he loves her just the same.

For ages, when philosophers talked about the core of man they referred to it as his essence, something fixed in his nature, deep down, some special quality or substance. But nothing like it was ever found; man's peculiarity still remained a dilemma. The reason it was never found, as Erich Fromm put it in an excellent discussion, was that there was no essence, that the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

Breakdown occurs either because of too much possibility or too little; philistinism, as we observed earlier, knows its real enemy and tries to play it safe with freedom.

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.

To escape from fire men will plunge into boiling water.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?

But you mustn't believe in killing, he told himself. You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.

I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

Don't you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes.

Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.

Viele Wege viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und gehe ich immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich reich wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweg wäre. viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und ich gehe immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich ärmer wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweh wäre.

Love and desire do not have to be mutually exclusive. Many couples find a way to integrate their contradictions without resorting to compartmentalization. But it starts with the understanding that we can never eliminate the dilemma. Reconciling the erotic and the domestic is not a problem to solve; it is a paradox to manage.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).