Quotes About Dilemma

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. I'll take the shoes, she said firmly.

But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it. ...it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

Doing the right thing, she knew, was often not as enjoyable as doing the wrong thing. The wrong thing often made for a better story, but it was still the wrong thing--nothing could change that.

Such questions are labeled 'ipsative,' which means that if in reality you have both, the question makes it impossible for you to show up with both.

There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

Which do you value more, life or honor? Honor,...because everyone must die, but honor lasts forever.

Sometimes living with him is like being told to hold my breath as a matter of life and death - but never being told when to let that breath out. So I don't know what to do for the best. To let out that breath and suffer the consequences or to keep holding on no matter what it does to me.

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Sometimes there are no good decisions, only impossible ones. Which doesn't—necessarily—make those forced to make these decisions evil.

it's true," said the major, "you could have your cake and eat it to.

Eeny?" said Salazar. "Is that from Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?" "Really, Harry?" said Kelly in amusement. "You think I'd name it after Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?

For the greater good?" screamed Ashley through her tears,

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'" Altschuler

We both absently pulled handguns from our holsters and extended them outward.

She could remain a prisoner for life, or I could end her now. Was keeping her a prisoner forever really the compassionate choice? Or would letting her die now be a mercy,

holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,

Honestly, I am less concerned about gangs with guns than the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food." He paused, and sighed, "I don't want to be in that moral dilemma.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Sometimes doing something is worse than doing nothing.

Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle

When all the options are wrong," he muttered to himself in the darkness, "what does it matter which one I choose?

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.