Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at… — John Updike Copy Share Image
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope… — Kevin Eikenberry Copy Share Image
Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many… — Afshin Molavi Copy Share Image
How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic… — William Greider Copy Share Image
