Dilemma Quotes

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

Know what you do not know.

The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

You don't know what you don't know.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.

The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values. Humor can sometimes be the only way out of this intolerable dilemma. And if that doesn't work, arson.

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.