Predicament Quotes

79 Predicament quotes by 72 unique authors

How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face… — Barack Obama
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in… — Charles Dickens
She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her… — Jeaniene Frost
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,… — Ann Brashares
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike
What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Christopher Isherwood
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to… — George Orwell
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… — Hannah Arendt
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which… — Gail Carriger
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often… — Michel Houellebecq
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world… — Philippa Gregory
We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other,… — Tonya Hurley
Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal,… — Georgette Heyer
there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and… — Pete Wentz
It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even… — Pema Chodron
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. — Ram Dass
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. — Paul de Man
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks… — Christopher Fry
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with… — Franz Wright
A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer.… — Chuck Palahniuk
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you… — Dan Millman
Everything becomes worse when the people you expect to understand you most are the very ones that show they've no idea about your predicament...and yet,… — Terry Mark
They told her she wasn't pretty. She knew they were right. The desire to be skinny took over her at night. She wanted more than… — Jackie
My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament! — Nick Kler
I attempt to become as totally responsible to the subject as I possibly can. The act of being an outsider aiming a camera can be… — James Nachtwey

Who Wrote These Predicament Quotes

72 authors contributed a total of 79 Predicament Quotes, led by these top contributors: