Predicaments Quotes

80 Predicaments quotes by 73 unique authors

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity. — Isabel Allende
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.… — Wendell Berry
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a… — Viktor E. Frankl
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out… — Woody Allen
The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's… — Ram Dass
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people… — George Washington
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
Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about. — Monica Johnson

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