Quotes About Quandary

If you ever fall into quicksand, the most important thing to remember is this: take your time. Quicksand, unlike water, will not move out of the way to let you pass. Instead, it resists movement. Flailing about will only cause you to sink deeper. But slowly gets you safely to shore. It's no accident that each episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood opens with a shot of a traffic light flashing in yellow caution mode.

I can't keep doing this," she said to Sy, "but I can't do anything else, either. So where does that leave me?

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

Occasionally the ideals seemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, but in times of moral quandary a conscientious officer could anchor himself with a few simple questions: Is it good for the troops? Is it good for the country? Is it honorable?

That possibility alone made his quandary more difficult. His wife had left for parts unknown, his deputy was wandering in other parts unknown, and the man he was supposed to catch was in yet other parts unknown. In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known.

It's definitely a situation we have found ourselves in.

It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

I'm in the soup!

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. —George Polya When

I remember what my uncle Pa Keating would say, there are times when you wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

No, I mean your quandary. An iffy dimension where I'm afraid for or worried about one of my daughters, like you, where I cross a boundary and then she gets pissed.' 'So you're saying what happened is normal?' 'I think so. It's easy to overstep out of worry. It can infuriate them, though sometimes they understand later on.' I was

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

But if Adams was certain of the necessity of the war, he found it difficult to reconcile himself to the role he should play in the conflict. Could he morally order other men to risk death on America's battlefields if he did not likewise face harm? Should he bear arms? Was he less than a man if he did not soldier? Adams struggled with these matters. For a sensitive man such as John Adams, it produced a terrible quandary.

The temptations in our heart are there practically all the time, and because we don't recognize them, we are often in a quandary. We are being pulled this way and that. For instance, right now: we know it's better to hear Dhamma, but wouldn't it also be nice to go to sleep? If we were left alone, without a lot of people sitting here, it is quite likely we'd wander off to bed.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

That's a dilly of a pickle.

diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

Às vezes não é divertido fazer escolhas. Algumas vezes se trata de escolher entre o menor dos dois males.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

I never start by making up a bunch of characters and then wonder what might happen to them. I think of a situation, an impossible dilemma, a moral or emotional quandary, and then wonder to whom it might happen and when and where.

We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.