46 Dilemma Quotes for You to Enjoy

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice. Alvin Toffler

Future People Dilemma Out Absence May Victims Turn Choice Suffer

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

You Dilemma Journalism Know Central

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. Marlene Dietrich

Father King Incompetence Dilemma Paradox Neither Abdicate Would See Delegate Only Could Sons Understand His Duties Either Realizing

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. Hendrik Willem Van Loon

World Somewhere Every Dilemma Epigram

I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan. Andrew Pyper

Me Satan Paradise Argument Lost Few Dilemma Carried Details About Remembered True Protagonist Read Pitiable Little Persuasive University

Boxers risk a lot in the ring. That's one of the things that attracts me to it. You want to see a knockout but I also really don't want to see people get hurt. It's this constant dilemma when I'm watching boxing. The only times I get nervous is watching a really big fight or when my brother is playing. I get to the stage where I'm actually shaking. Andy Murray

Me You Fight Hurt People Nervous Big Stage Dilemma One Of The Things Ring Constant Brother See Risk Only Shaking Also Attracts Boxers Boxing Lot Times Get Where Want Really Actually Things Watching Playing

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.' Bryan Volpenhein

Book Dilemma Favorite Now Right

I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time? Coretta Scott King

Time You Woman Every Dilemma Perform Suppose Expected Personal Tasks Same Same Time Experienced Happens Conflicting Working Dozen

It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era. David Ignatius

Dilemma Share Genuine How How Much Era Governments Deciding Information Much

Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. David Milch

Great Man Challenges Different Kinds Dilemma Faulkner Pleasures Those Alive Gifts Kinds Able He Materials His Questions Gets Modern Different Modernity Race Themes Us Aspects Speaks Many Among Specify Bring

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other. Deborah Tannen

You Obey Other Dilemma Worse Mutually Mutually Exclusive Exclusive Commands Than Anything Double Far Straightforward Fulfill Requires Bind Violates Two

I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show. Derek Blasberg

Fashion Guest Dilemma Moral Some Sort Coming Show Fashion Show Event

It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one? Elizabeth Berg

Day Happy Book Consider Dilemma Books Recommend Pick Also How Am Depended Just Loved Just One Asked Publicly

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly. James Black

Myself Needs Ambition Corporate Dilemma Once Once More Solved More Had Recurring Between New Mission Scientific Commercial Personal Unexpectedly Found

The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work. James Levine

Work Problem Men Face Dilemma Tend Feel Invisible Comfortable Real Issues Up Very Real Problem Acknowledged Bringing

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. James Surowiecki

Capitalism Problem Own Ownership Dilemma Corporations Those Run Would Would-Be Pockets Only Small Perennial Had Instead Toward Became Real Occurs Line Been Model America American Managers Owners Essentially Moved Which Stakes Who Companies Professional

Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories. Joan Lunden

You People Gone Dilemma Vitro About Faces Through Know Terrible Couples Talking Hear Years America Trying Just Stories Them Many Now Why Right Started

One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly. Jonathan Zittrain

The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear. Khaled Hosseini

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma. Leslie Moonves

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