Quotes About Dilemmas

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

absolutely still at night, quiet and at peace, yet listen a little more carefully and you will hear the sounds of tossing and turning, of people struggling with dilemmas, of an inner turmoil that is anything but peaceful.

As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.

Knowing what moral values and ethics are will not guarantee that good decisions will be made, but it will allow us to recognize that some problems have moral dimensions.

Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions. -William Pickering

baseball freely admits that the sport--like civilized society--is crawling with bums.

By identifying and enshrining your core priorities, you make it easier to resolve present and future dilemmas.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

Once again the Saint had proved, to his own sufficient satisfaction, as he had proved many times in his life before, that desperate dilemmas are usually best solved by desperate measures and that intelligent foolhardiness will often get by where too much discretion betrays valour into the mulligatawny.

Once again the Saint had proved, to his own sufficient satisfaction, as he had proved many times in his life before, that desperate dilemmas are usually best solved by desperate measures and that intelligent foolhardiness will often get by where too much discretion betrays valour into the mulligatawny. And

I'd been an idiot to think that this was anything but a quest. Searches were nice and soft and cuddly and no one need be killed. A quest always demanded the death of a trusted colleague and one or more difficult dilemmas. I'd been in denial. I'd been a fool.

I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I think each generation struggles with its own set of problems.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.

Every two or three generations the world gets vastly different, and the context in which you have to learn how to be a human being, or to have good relationships, or decide whether or not there is a God, or decide whether there's such a thing as love, and whether it's redemptive, become vastly different. And the structures with which you can communicate those dilemmas, or have characters struggle with them, seem to become appropriate and then inappropriate again and so on.

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.