Dilemma Quotes

Dilemma Quote of the day

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

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.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

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 central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

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

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

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

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.

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.

Know what you do not know.

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

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

The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

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

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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.

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

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

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.

God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.

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.

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

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

Here's the dilemma, Itself the solution. I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction.

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

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

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

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

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.

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 dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

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

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

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

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

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

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

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.

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.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.