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Letter "D" » dilemmas
«Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?»
Author: Clyde Kluckhohn
| About:
Anthropology,
Appearance
| Keywords:
anthropology, crucial, dilemma, dilemmas, dissimilar, get along, peaceably, provides
«There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?»
Author: Danny DeVito
(Actor)
| Keywords:
dilemmas, get rid of, hang, hang on, human skull, rattle, rattled, rid, rid of, skull, skulls, The Skull
«Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma»
«To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.»
Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski
| About:
Love,
Work
| Keywords:
dilemmas, elements, ending, Happy ending, in opposition, opposition, The Elements
«Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.»
«It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential.»
«Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
constant, dilemmas, horned, horns, horn in, oscillation, sharp
«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.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, delegate, delegated, delegates, delegating, dilemma, dilemmas, duties, incompetence, paradox, realizing, sons
«Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
blackguard, blackguards, dilemma, dilemmas, forced, gentleman, placed, reply, There exists
«Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
dilemma, dilemmas, embarrassing, facing, Hillary Clinton, senator
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