Quotes About Dilemma

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

ALTERNATIVE  (ALTE'RNATIVE)   n.s.[alternatif, Fr.]The choice given of two things; so that if one be rejected, the other must be taken.

It was "The devil of a Sex." It was a cursed thing, he said, that a man could be neither happy with them, nor without them. Devil's baits was another of his compliments to us. He hardly mentioned my name.

If Mickey tried to pump his chest, his bones would crunch into little bitty bits. Not even Mickey, seduced into the Leggo's philosophy of doing everything always for every patient forever, would dare call a cardiac arrest. Mickey called a cardiac arrest. From all over the House, terns and residents stormed into the room to save the Man With Agonal Respirations from a painless peaceful death.

I'm beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don't want to; those you want to marry and can't.

It was difficult to sympathize with a protagonist whose dilemma was mild when compared to her own.

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

Maybe it was me. Maybe I wanted to hate him because I'm in love with his wife, and if that's the case, what kind of man does that make me?

Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...

But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there. ~Ruby, pg 399

It seemed like things either stayed just the same or changed irrevocably. And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between.

The choice of no choice.

I wonder again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous

What if my country is destroying itself? Could I leave? Should I? And if so, what time's the next train to Montreal? Well, maybe not Montreal.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

To - to uto?ište mogao je imati, vjerovao je, da samo kaže jednu rije?. Zašto onda ne kaže tu rije?? Zato što bi današnje uto?ište moglo biti sutrašnja tamnica.

Morality is primarily concerned with questions of right and wrong, the ability to distinguish between the two, and the justification of the distinction.

When deliberating about blowing the whistle, many employees become ethical egoists, using their own self-interest as the determining factor for what they should do in the situation.

Our choices lie between the lesser of two evils, but it is still within our power to make these choices

God, why are the jerks always the cute ones?

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.