Quotes About Dilemma

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

It's hard not to chase the money. You sit at home when guys are out playing for a $6 million purse, and you know you're going to drop back on the money list, so you end up playing when you don't really want to.

I had to take a decision. Do I pursue dance, my passion, or help my mother out? The movies beckoned.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I'm always fascinated by people when they reach that fork in the road, where they can make a moral choice.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves!

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

After all, she told herself, if Todd preferred Jessica—and that certainly was how it looked—she would not stand in the way. She'd do the decent thing. Die.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

Why isn't he dead?' he said eventually. 'That is a good question. After all, meaning well hasn't been a completely adequate shield in this century of ours.

Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.

Economics versus beauty, a story older than Sheba.

I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.

What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

Bir karara varamamak ba?l? ba??na bir karard?.

We have created a monster — enormously valuable and even useful yet extremely dangerous. Our monster is both beautiful and terrifying. We do not dare use this monster to its full potential, but we cannot release our grasp upon it. — Gowachin assessment of the Dosadi experiment