Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana 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
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet. — James Frecheville Copy Share Image
What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Christopher Isherwood 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
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. — Liv Ullmann 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
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal… — Anonymous 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
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
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression… — Louis O. Kelso 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 question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look… — Ram Dass 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
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
I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your… — Dan Millman 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
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
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
Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about. — Monica Johnson 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
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament! — Mitch Hedberg 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
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. — Ram Dass 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
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope.… — J. Ogden Armour 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
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
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
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
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
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
