Best 63 quotes in «dilemma quotes» category

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

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic.  Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.  Be brave, be brave.

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

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

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

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

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

I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.

Know what you do not know.

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.

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

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.

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

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

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.

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

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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

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

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

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

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

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

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

And the conclusion is: Survive to reach it! Survive! At any price! This is simply a turn of phrase, a sort of habit of speech: "at any price." But then the words swell up with their full meaning, and an awesome vow takes shape: to survive at any price. And whoever takes that vow, whoever does not blink before its crimson burst—allows his own misfortune to overshadow both the entire common misfortune and the whole world. This is the great fork of camp life. From this point the roads go to the right and to the left. One of them will rise and the other will descend. If you go to the right—you lose your life, and if you go to the left—you lose your conscience.

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

Aijayy’s emotions ripped her in different directions, part of her telling her to run, the other dying to help her friend. She did neither.

As you grow older, you become faced with the problem of what to with your time

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face my love is too music to have thrown back on my face

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

Ever feel like an enigma, wrapped in a dilemma, surrounded by a conundrum? Yeah, so do I

She had only been around humans for a few days, and she had already embroiled herself in one of the most intricate social dilemmas: to stand out or to fit in?

I couldn't find my cup of tea. So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?

Never expect a yield of milk from a bull.

​Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play the Game, by those who are Inside the Game.

How I'm glad to go back home! Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry Endure setbacks in the outcome.

In my forties I faced a dilemma: Understand the biological effects of radiation or die prematurely. I chose to understand radiation.

Money knows no sides, and morality is a dilemma

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions.

Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

Som så ofta när jag var i den åldern undrade jag vem jag var, och vad det egentligen var som tittade på ansiktet i spegeln. Om ansiktet jag tittade på inte var jag, och det visste jag att det inte var eftersom jag förblev mig själv vad som än hände med mitt ansikte, vad var det i så fall som var jag? Och vad var det som tittade?

That's 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.

Sometimes, all that is required of us is to come to a decision, a decision which would determine our course thereafter, which is sudden, which is made in an instant and not out of introspection. Because the more we happen to brood, the more we burden the mind, with doubt with dilemma, whether to or whether not to. Sometimes it is this decision that furnishes to be the highlight of our lives, it may cause us to diverge from our paths and lead us to new ones or narrow down our destinations altogether, either way it cherishes significance.

That's the thing with you people. You think you could love someone one second and hate them the next. Well, you can't.