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Quotes About Dilemma

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All humans search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In Miss Chen's English class, we learned, 'To be or not to be...' but there's a big gray area in between. Maybe in Shakespeare times people only had two options. Griffin Wilson, he knew that the SATs were just the gateway to a big lifetime of bullshit. To get married and college. To paying taxes and trying to raise a kid who's not a school shooter. And Griffin Wilson knew drugs are only a patch. After drugs, you're always going to need more drugs.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Either a prehistoric flying dinosaur awakened by a nuclear test is about to destroy the people downstairs or their television's too loud. In
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ich stehe vor dem uralten Dilemma, entweder die eigenen Eltern oder die eigene Gottheit verraten zu müssen.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My mom would tell you, This is one of those Hamlet moments. Meaning: You need to make a significant effort to determine whether you're to be or not to be.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tal vez la autosuperación no se la respuesta. [...] Tal vez la autodestrucción sea la respuesta.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Qué es peor, el infierno o nada?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.
~ Claire Cross
predicament bondage before, where the sub had to choose between two difficult, erotically painful outcomes. But the play had always been one-on-one. She'd never been made responsible for inflicting pain on others in order to avoid pain herself.
~ Claire Thompson
This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
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
There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.
~ Clive Barker
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
~ Clive Cussler
But it was a shouldn't with a hint of should.
~ Colin Bateman
What if the 'brutal thunderclap of halt' takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?
~ Colin Wilson
And what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.
~ Colson Whitehead
Lander's talk verged on a sermon, concerning the dilemma of finding your purpose once you've slipped the yoke of slavery. The manifold frustrations of liberty.
~ Colson Whitehead
Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.
~ Colum McCann
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
while the others--those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther--felt viable now with disgust for the shouters: they wanted the man to save himself, step backward into the arms of the cops instead of the sky.
~ Colum McCann
in-law told her she'd have to leave?" Maria shrugged. "She was
~ Victoria Thompson
It is not for me to pass judgement on those prisoners who put their own people above everyone else. Who can throw a stone at a man who favors his friends under circumstances when, sooner or later, it is a question of life or death? No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
~ Viktor E. Frankl