Human Predicament Quotes

#1. Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#2. When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.

Jonathan Goldstein

#3. 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

#4. When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.

Ravi Zacharias

#5. Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

Nick Herbert

#6. Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Chris Avellone

#7. He sold his watch to buy her combs, and she sold her hair to buy a watch chain.

Anna Quindlen

#8. Step onto the road and there's no telling where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. 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 triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

Jim Cramer

#11. Destiny had a strange plan in store for him.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#12. The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.

Brian Tracy

#13. Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank ... It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the whole industry.

Guido Palau

#14. You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

Lily Allen

#15. All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

Isaiah Berlin

#16. Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

Leo Buscaglia

#17. That's where you're wrong. To really understand music, to love it for what it is, you have to be open-minded and go into everything thinking you might find a new part of yourself. It can only make your heart bigger.

Karina Halle

#18. Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. Why do kids always say peace out, I though peace was in.

Bill Cosby

#20. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.

Paranjay Malkan

#21. The reality of his predicament hit him hard. There's no way out of this now, save arrest or death. Professor Ratib had made it sound so academic, but it wasn't. Regardless of whether we're attacking human- or infrastructure-related targets, it's terrorism. If Husam thinks that I'm a risk, I'm dead.

Christian F. Burton

#22. I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

Noam Chomsky

#23. In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.

Matt Haig

#24. The earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord

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