Quotes About Dilemma

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Thus the Mormon dilemma: Outside the Church is no salvation,' yet inside the Church there is no hope either, for no one who is honest with himself could ever pretend to meet its impossible standards of personal righteousness.

Yossarian knew that you had to be crazy to fly combat. But you couldn't fly combat if you were crazy. If you turned yourself in as crazy so that you couldn't fly combat that would clearly be the act of a sane person, so you couldn't really be crazy and you must fly combat. Yossarian knew all this and he recognized it as the "catch." It was Catch-22.

He didn't want to be a sucker, but he didn't want to be alone. Everything ached and all the choices felt wrong.

The dilemma in U.S. culture is that we don't really distinguish what I am defining as Humble Inquiry carefully enough from leading questions, rhetorical questions, embarrassing questions, or statements in the form of questions—such as journalists seem to love— which are deliberately provocative and intended to put you down.

la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada

hay algo dentro de mí que me grita que no, que no estoy dispuesta a eso de las disyuntivas y las renuncias, porque no quiero esa libertad en la que pierdo a uno de los dos hombres de los que vivo enamorada, y no me interesa quedar como una nena caprichosa, y ya sé que la madurez es precisamente sustraernos a la inmediatez de los deseos y la dictadura de los impulsos, pero entonces me temo que nunca seré una mujer madura.

It would be like murder; and where would I set my coffee?

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. —George Polya When

But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?

She was always struggling over what was the best way to react. There were so many contradictions between what she was told and what she saw that she could only hesitatingly move forward, lacking, as she did, power and knowledge. She was a girl trying to make her way.

Through forty years of impatience, Nicholas still could not make up his mind which was more annoying, the guile of straight women or the wiles of gay men.

Programs for sale: fast, reliable, cheap - choose two.

The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie?

Multitudes in the valley of decision.

To crop or not to crop, that is the question.

Hobson's choice

Dirty work at the crossroads

One of irony's greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

She was a mild, inoffensive, well-meaning creature, with a face not unlike that of an amiable horse, and she spent most of her life striving so hard to do the right thing and invariably doing the wrong one.