Quotes About Dilemma

#1. Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.

Joan Lunden

#2. In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

Terence McKenna

#3. 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.

Rosamund Stone Zander

#4. It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.

David Ignatius

#5. Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Bjarke Ingels

#6. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power Greater Than Ourselves.

Bill Wilson

#7. Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar ... is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?"
"Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?

Julie Anne Long

#8. The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

Tipper Gore

#9. Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully delivers hope and poignant truth every step of the way. It's a masterful and timely production!

Ray Comfort

#10. You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

Wayne Kramer

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

#12. Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic - a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights of fancy and metaphysical verbosity - he was not slow in finding a way out of the dilemma in which socialists found themselves.

Ludwig Von Mises

#13. The sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will become.

Richard Carlson

#14. Dilemma? Let him have his way with something simple, or keep getting my way and him torture me later? Hmmm. I guess I'm more of a masochist than I thought.

J.A. Redmerski

#15. Multi-lateralism's dilemma: that the inclusion of more actors increases the legitimacy of a process or organization at the same time as it decreases its efficiency and utility.

Richard N. Haass

#16. Existed in the eternal dilemma: to give freedom free rein, or to rein freedom in?

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#17. The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves - is the ethical choice at the heart of love. The other person, their identity and feelings, can be sacrificed for our pleasure.

Rod Dubey

#18. Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together

Clyde Kluckhohn

#19. So crows must spend a lot of the day wondering what they are supposed to do now, what they are here for, and that seemed like a cruel existential dilemma for anyone who didn't have TV.

Peter Heller

#20. Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection.

Aysha Taryam

#21. Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

W. H. Auden

#22. Nevertheless, after an hour in the tub drinking alone, I felt no closer to solving my dilemma. Instead I was left with an empty bottle of wine, pruney fingers, and more questions.

Penny Reid

#23. When I'm creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

Nino Rota

#24. ... the germ of the dilemma ... is trapped in the room with me, always has been, and always will be, and it is yet more foreign to me than those foreign hills outside.

James Baldwin

#25. With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.

Matt Mullenweg

#26. A flow of a brook matches life, a swift brook at times splashes life,demeanour of mine is to be with life,
what a dilemma it's nothing but life.

Deepika Chamoli

#27. I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.

James W. Black

#28. There are people in the world who care about automobiles, and there are people who couldn't care less, and then there are the people who are impressed by the Dilemma, and those people are everyone.

Lemony Snicket

#29. For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.

Marilyn Suttle

#30. The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.

Jennifer Fox

#31. Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.

Elie Wiesel

#32. They are always motivated to go up-market, and almost never motivated to defend the new or low-end markets that the disruptors find attractive. We call this phenomenon asymmetric motivation. It is the core of the innovator's dilemma, and the beginning of the innovator's solution.

Clayton M Christensen

#33. Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

Philip Kapleau

#34. If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

Bob Saget

#35. Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

Jon Foreman

#36. The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
(A Qualified Farewell)

Raymond Chandler

#37. If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#39. Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

R.C. Sproul

#41. You see the dilemma?" Ham asked. "I see an idiot," Breeze mumbled.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Alan Watts

#43. I was an "Omnivore." Like a lot of people, I didn't know any better. Then I read a couple of books. One of them was called How Chickens Are Raped Before You Eat Them. Another was called Hotdogs and Fingertips. I also read The Cow Feces Dilemma as well as Barf, STDs and Veal.

Demetri Martin

#44. The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

George Bernard Shaw

#45. The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

#46. The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

Markus Zusak

#47. As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#48. 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.

Alexander McCall Smith

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

Albert Einstein

#50. In the final analysis, real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

John Gardner

#51. Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us to apprehend things, but at the same time restricts and partly precludes our apprehension of reality.

Gerhard Richter

#52. I was convinced that all the answers to the dilemmas of human existence could be found through the intellect, that is to say, by thinking. I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

Siegfried Lenz

#54. To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#55. The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Christopher Dawson

#56. Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.

T.D. Jakes

#57. We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

Jay Rockefeller

#58. It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

Lauren Willig

#59. My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

Anne Rice

#60. Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

John Taylor Gatto

#61. I often feel caught in a dilemma: on the one hand I wish to be more natural with you and yet, on the other hand, because I feel that you're easily wounded and that you give my comments inordinate power, I feel I must consider my wording very, very carefully.

Irvin D. Yalom

#62. Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely historical universe that they
have chosen, rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma: either police rule or insanity.

Albert Camus

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

Allan Kaprow

#64. America's educational dilemma doesn't make sense to even the casual observer. How can it be that the world's only superpower has so much trouble educating its youth? Why is it that providing all American children with a solid, first-rate education is so hard for this mighty nation?

Karin Chenoweth

#65. If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

Ram Dass

#66. A lot of my work has been about the unexpected - that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma - that push and pull - is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

Kara Walker

#67. When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

Michel Gondry

#68. One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.

Jonathan Zittrain

#69. The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time

Sunday Adelaja

#70. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Gregory David Roberts

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

John Rawls

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

Harold S. Kushner

#73. It was the dilemma of the watchers: they didn't want to wait around for nothing at all, some idiot standing on the precipice of the towers, but they didn't want to miss the moment either, if he slipped, or got arrested, or dove, arms stretched.

Colum McCann

#74. Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Philip K. Dick

#75. Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail ...

Gerhard Richter

#76. I had a dilemma. I could find absolutely no good reason to slap the girl standing in the kitchen doorway. And I really wanted one.

Myra McEntire

#77. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

Gabriel Kolko

#78. But Mike was not a Layercake device; Beria had misdirected his scientific staff. In time this led to Beria's ultimate dilemma.

Thomas C. Reed

#79. The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

Rob Sheffield

#80. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!

Mehek Bassi

#81. I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

Jules Renard

#82. Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Howard Markel

#83. This is the dilemma, the contradiction we cannot resolve. We do not want to be them. Yet we are fascinated by them, because every detail tugs at a buried memory.

Kelley Armstrong

#84. I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both sides. On that occasion, as generally in the future, I compromised.

Mary McCarthy

#85. The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.

T.K. Coleman

#86. You're not caught in a dilemma?" he asked. I looked at my feet. I didn't know what a dilemma was, but it didn't look like I was caught in anything, so I shook my head no.

Lenore Look

#87. Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.

Lynn Coady

#89. Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

Nicholas Sparks

#90. You can never reach to the truth if you don't even look for it, and the bigger dilemma with the truth is, that you don't have to go too far, but simply have to, turn your attention inward.

Roshan Sharma

#91. I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

Chris Carter

#92. As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#93. Why don't you talk to me about what's really troubling you? What emotional dilemma needs sorting out?" He patted his legs. "Sit here and I'll rock you gently until you or I or both fall asleep.

Kerri Maniscalco

#94. The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

Clayton Christensen

#95. I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

Andrew Pyper

#96. Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Randall Terry

#99. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better ...

Sydney J. Harris

#100. The first step towards solving the omnivore' s dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Michael Pollan