Predicament Quotes

79 quotes by 72 authors

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia,… — Zeena Schreck
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the… — Louise Hay
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply… — Richard Avedon
I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or… — Wesley Snipes
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility… — Isaiah Berlin
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to… — James Nachtwey
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his… — Allen Tate
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human… — William Greider
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in… — Leo Steinberg
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be… — Hugo Ball
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. — Tom Hooper
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting… — Shigeru Yoshida
predicament, n. The wage of consistency. — Ambrose Bierce
Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another… — Daniel H. Pink
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. — Steve Jobs
The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises). — Rich Hall
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. — Jesse Jackson

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