Julien Baker

One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about some deep existential quandary and explore all these dumb thought waves, and then think 'Is it effective to say that? Or is it effective to say one simple thing that communicates the feeling better?

American Musician

Eavan Boland

New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

Irish Poet

Alexandra Adornetto

We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.

Australian Author

Gertrude B. Elion

I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

American Scientist

Gerard Butler

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

Scottish Actor

Alfred Bester

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

American Author

Barbara Jordan

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

American Politician

Wentworth Miller

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

English Actor

Charlie Brooker

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

English Critic

Robert Sean Leonard

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

American Actor

Quandary means being unable to choose because all options have downsides.

Decision Difficulty

Using 'quandary' often indicates stress or worry about making the wrong choice.

Emotional Stress

A quandary refers to tough situations, not simple or everyday decisions.

Not Trivial

 Using synthetic biology to change the genetic makeup of any living organisms, especially our own, is not without its moral and ethical quandaries. Will engineering ourselves make us less human? But then again, what is humanity but star stuff that happens to be conscious?

How humans could evolve...

 on those limited supply fossil fuels and reduce the risk of climate change. Most biofuels today are made from corn grain that is fermented into ethanol. But we have a limited supply of this corn, so it's not a solution to the limited supply part of the quandary.

Biofuels and bioprospecti...

 are very respectful of the land that they were on the campers have been camped out for months waiting because the tunnel plan started they wanted to be there to stop it before it was too late you know this is such like a weird quandary

Stonehenge Has a Traffic...

 important lesson they're in the quandary it's dangerous to drink but they won't survive the night without water this is where their collective