An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a…

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response…

— Thorstein Veblen

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

— Hannah Arendt

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

— Anonymous

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few…

— George Washington

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this…

— Philippa Gregory

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

— Colin Firth

My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem…

— Philip Kitcher

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be…

— Deepak Chopra

there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself,…

— Pete Wentz

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

— Rodger Kamenetz

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's…

— Annia Ciezadlo

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of…

— Allen Tate

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

— John Updike