Quotes About Predicaments

#1. Predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...

Ralph Ellison

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. Ageing is a privilege not a predicament

Martin Firrell

#5. Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

Monica Johnson

#6. It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out.

Bruce Bairnsfather

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

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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

Terence McKenna

#9. I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let me take
a small draught of solace
from my own little cup
full of predicaments!
From the poem- Draught

Munia Khan

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Most information doesn't constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that's a very different concept from information.

Ian Stewart

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

Elbert Hubbard

#13. Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

Mitch Hedberg

#14. She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.

Cheryl Strayed

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

Terence McKenna

#16. Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Ken Dodd

#17. Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Elliot Richardson

#18. 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 their growth.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#19. 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 slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

Neal Stephenson

#20. 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

#21. Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say "I love you" with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you.

Diane Chamberlain

#22. 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.

James G. Frazer

#23. I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

Jerry Hall

#24. Life is adventure, not predicament.

James Broughton

#25. As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Jim Lynch

#26. When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

Viktor E. Frankl

#27. There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions.

Jean Ferris

#28. Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are trying to tell us/ ... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.

William Meredith

#29. I was not aware of my actions. Everyone must find out who they are and be aware of their actions before they wind up in a vicious predicament.

Richard Ramirez