Quotes About Dilemma

Qu'un type de trente-cinq ans soit chez lui un mercredi à quinze heures vingt est la preuve tangible qu'il est dans une merde de première qualité.

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

Dice que si no le sacas la muela te pega un tiro. Sin apresurarse, con un movimiento extremadamente tranquilo, dejó de pedalear en la fresa, la retiró del sillón y abrió por completo la gaveta inferior de la mesa. Allí estaba el revólver. -Bueno -dijo-. Dile que venga a pegármelo.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

For too many families in St. Louis and across the country, the high cost of energy means having to choose between keeping the heat on in the winter or buying groceries. I, myself, have had to make that choice.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

Still the towers of Trebizond, the fabled city, shimmer on a far horizon, gated and walled and held in a luminous enchantment. It seems that for me, and however much I must stand outside them, this must for ever be. But at the city's heart lie the pattern and the hard core, and these I can never make my own: they are too far outside my range. The pattern should perhaps be easier, the core less hard. This seems, indeed, the eternal dilemma.

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

If, simply by nodding, you would acquire great riches, but at the same time bring about the death of an unknown mandarin in distant China – would you nod?

You are joking. You must want money. You work for money, don't you?" "I want it very badly," I said. "But I can't take this money. It wouldn't belong to me, I would belong to it. It would expect me to do things, and I would have to do them. Sit on the lid of this mess of yours, the way Marfeld did, until dry rot sets in.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He's wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

Is the perfect murder ever possible?

Creating a constitution is itself primarily an act of coordination on one of many possible ways of ordering our lives together, not an act of cooperating in an exchange or prisoner's dilemma.

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.