All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament! — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“Don't neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. — Elbert Hubbard 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
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
I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You have fallen into a fit of despondency, and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen 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
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott 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
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
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how… — Woody Allen 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
