Quotes About Quandary

Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?

We're in a tight spot!

Sean cracked a smile. "They are chickens." "Technically they're not even avian." "Dina, we're going to host sixty-one space chickens." I gave up. "Yes." "And they're going to argue philosophy.

An insolubility is not a problem.

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

In that moment I began to see that there are times when there is no best choice. There is only this choice and that choice, and both are terrible.

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure?

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.

Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.

Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

What the hell was I going to do with a rabid animal welded to a tree stump?

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

He that has a choice has trouble.

One of the two horns of my dilemma.

Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?

I was in a quandary, and my tears busted forth again, which worked out perfect, for it moved them all to my favor, and I seen right off that crying and squalling was part of the game of being a girl.

Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.

Knowing what the problem was didn't help if none of the solutions were available in any case.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....

Deciding on the right thing to do in a situation is a bit like deciding on the right thing to wear to a party. It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

Quagmires, remember?