Quotes About Dilemma

If she left, he was going to lose his mind. If she stayed, he was going to lose his mind. She

resort. Yes, exactly, only now, after all this time, I had discovered that the grenade was a dud, and I could hop right back to that same old spot which was safety. The excruciating thing was that those two selves were now warring with each other. I wanted desperately to find those camels, and I wanted desperately not to find them. The pilot snapped me back to the present dilemma. 'Well, what do you want to do? Shall

Sometimes, we do things we don't feel good about to survive. It doesn't mean you're a bad person." His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn't cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.

We hadn't yet traded freedom for comfort.

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

One means of allaying anxiety is frantic activity. The anxiety arising out of the dilemma of powerlessness in the face of suprapersonal economic forces on one hand, but theoretical belief in the efficacy of individual effort on the other, was symptomized partly by excessive activism.

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

But now—why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater.

In the same way that a person cannot love the Yankees and the Red Sox or follow veganism and frequently devour a steak, one cannot really love Jesus and wish to follow him and also vote for a person who so clearly embodies the opposite of everything Christ taught, died for, and demands of us.

Never allow your heart to convince your mind that something you know is wrong, is right.

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

la vérité, c'est une agonie qui n'en finit pas. La vérité de ce monde, c'est la mort. Il faut choisir, mourir ou mentir. Je n'ai jamais pu me tuer moi

You have to choose: death or lies.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

The reason for this is that the problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.

I think this is one of the situations where there is no right choice. We have to pray that we make the choice that is the least wrong.

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.

In the end, the Impressionists made the right choice, which is one of the reasons that their paintings hang in every major art museum in the world. But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.