Quotes About Dilemma

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

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

The Bible says we must choose two ways of life.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.

She asked if she could pray for her 'new father'—for the Italian!" "Did you let her?" "I got up without saying anything." "You must have felt just as you did when I wanted to pray for the devil." "He is the devil," cried Harriet. "No, Harriet; he is too vulgar.

The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.

He had acted wrongly, and was still being punished—but wrongly because he had tried to get the best of both worlds.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

overload. Too much, too much, too much! Why were there so many alternatives? So many different outcomes to be considered?

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . .

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.

Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned—

The sense of purity is a puzzling and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts as one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.