Predicaments Quotes

80 Predicaments quotes by 73 unique authors

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 feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for… — Ken Keyes Jr.
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
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with… — Neal Stephenson
...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
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Life is a predicament which precedes death. — Henry James
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits ,… — Paracelsus
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be… — ASAP Rocky
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. — George Santayana

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