Quotes About Dilemma

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

I'm ambivalent about tech.

Technology is always a double-edged sword.

These teeth were the best and worst decision of my life.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

Oh no, Mr. Kaufman. I don't have any more money.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

Mithorden: I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

The problem wasn't that Robin didn't think she'd love her child. On the contrary, she thought it likely that she would love that child to the extent that this job, for which she had voluntarily sacrificed a marriage, her safety, her sleep and her financial security, would have to be sacrificed in return. And how would she feel, afterward, about the person who'd made that sacrifice necessary?

This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view.

fear of taking responsibility, especially the sense that it is safer to do nothing, or something bad, than the right thing.

For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. – Philippians 1:23

The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

How much of the total educational effort is devoted to teaching people who do not have a motivation, other than responding to compulsion, to learn what we are trying to teach them? Is there any way out of this dilemma (if you concede that it is a dilemma) other than Ivan Illich's revolutionary approach?

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

how fine our distinctions when we cannot choose

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

What would you do if you were me? said Solly. What would I do in your place? No, no; you'd do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?