Common Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.

— Boris Yeltsin

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few…

— George Washington

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this…

— Philippa Gregory

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

— Colin Firth

My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem…

— Philip Kitcher

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be…

— Deepak Chopra

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,…

— Pete Wentz

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

— Rodger Kamenetz

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males