Unsatisfactory Solutions Quotes

Sometimes there are no good choices.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.

I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck, so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it.

Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.