Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

To believe or not to believe, is a problem. To leave or to conceive is another problem. To ascertain and to achieve is to solve the problem.

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing...

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

When you are in a fix, often the fix is in you.

You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where...

You cannot sensibly expect a starving ‘God-fearing’ man to honor the 8th commandment.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people – at the most.

I couldn’t find my cup of tea.So probably, I’ve been simply taking a sip from everyone else’s cup. May be it shouldn’t matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?

So the dilemma the basketball committee has is this: If you don’t take five, who do you leave out?

Wachovia faces a difficult dilemma in seeking growth in 2006. It’s coming off a really outstanding year in 2005, and it has reached the size when it’s really difficult to sustain double-digit performance growth.

She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to.

It’s the horns of a dilemma, there’s no question about it.

What you have is all these various compartments, but there’s no umbrella, and that’s the dilemma that’s emerging. You have to have a voice that can look at the big picture.

Sometimes, all that is required of us is to come to a decision, a decision which would determine our course thereafter, which is sudden, which is made in an instant and not out of introspection....

It poses a dilemma for us because more and more property crimes are occurring. We are making arrests, but people going to the Department of Corrections are not staying very long. Those people are coming...