Predicaments Quotes

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?

Sometimes there are no good choices.

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that we face. And there are intelligent responses that we can bring forth. But when I hear the word "solution," I always suspect that there's a hidden agenda there. And the hidden agenda is: "Please, can you please tell us how we can keep on living exactly the way we're living now, without having to really change our behavior very much?" And that's sort of what's going on in this country. And it's not going to work.

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

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

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 of mine.

We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.