Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about. — Monica Johnson 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
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
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. — Liv Ullmann 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
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
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word .… — Christopher Fry 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
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran 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
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
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making… — Jaden Smith 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
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian 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
Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not… — Pete Hegseth 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
We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin 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
Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“At that point, Frank seemed to run out of words. There was somebody that he'd reminded me of, as he was spinning… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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