All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament! — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“Your true love for God is demonstrated through your ability to hold onto your faithfulness in the midst of Prosperity and Poverty,… — Israelmore Ayivor 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 possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy… — Hannah Arendt 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
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
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 at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“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
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image