Quotes About Dilemma

I'm in the soup!

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.

Why Did Noah Let Two Snakes on the Boat When He Had a Chance to Get Rid of Them Once and for All?

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and light —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead.

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Being eternally at a point where two paths fork!

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born.

I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

Que farei eu com esta espada?

Diyelim ki, beni boÄŸmakta olan bir eli boynumdan söküyorum. O eli söküp atan kendi elimin, beni kurtar?rken boynuma bir ip geçirdiÄŸini fark ediyorum. Ä°pi boynumdan dikkatle ç?kar?yorum, ama bu kez de kendi ellerimle boÄŸaz?m? s?kmama ramak kal?yor.

Tenho que escolher o que detesto — ou o sonho, que a minha inteligência odeia, ou a ação, que a minha sensibilidade repugna; ou a ação, para que não nasci, ou o sonho, para que ninguém nasceu. Resulta que, como detesto ambos, não escolho nenhum; mas, como hei-de, em certa ocasião, ou sonhar ou agir, misturo uma coisa com outra.

O diabo desta vida é que entre cem caminhos temos que escolher apenas um, e viver com a nostalgia dos outros noventa e nove.

La libertad no es una filosofía y ni siquiera es una idea: es un movimiento de la conciencia que nos lleva, en ciertos momentos, a pronunciar dos monosílabos: Sí o No.

En mi época, se daba por supuesto que ser «bueno» políticamente le daba a uno licencia para desentenderse de la moral de cada día; ahora parece aceptado que con intentar portarse éticamente en lo privado ya se hace bastante y no hay por qué preocuparse de los líos públicos, es decir: políticos.

free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.