Predicaments Quotes

• Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

  ASAP Rocky

  Mean, People, Role Models

  "ASAP Rocky on gay rights: 'I treat everybody equal'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 26, 2013.

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• The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

  Mike A. Males

  Fun, Kids, Acceptance

  Mike A. Males (1999). “Framing youth: ten myths about the next generation”, Common Courage Pr

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• The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Cutting, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• 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.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Answers, Problem, Humans

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• Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

  Hugo Ball

  Ethics, Morality, Ethical

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• At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

  Jesse Jackson

  The End Of The Day, Towns, Sides

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

  Wesley Snipes

  Gun, Choices, Want

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• Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Consistency, Habit

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

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• Adversity introduces a man to himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Adversity

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• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

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• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Life, Adversity

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• Life is a predicament which precedes death.

  Henry James

  Life, Judging, Inspire

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• it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

  Liv Ullmann

  Death, People, Statistics

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• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Pain, Self, Laughing

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• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

  George Santayana

  Life, Spectacles, Inspirational Life

  Articles and Essays

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• Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Thinking, May

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• Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

  Richard Avedon

  Thinking, Sometimes

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• Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

  Paul de Man

  Death, Names, Dying

  Quoted in David Lehman, Signs of the Times (1991)

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• So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

  Allen Tate

  Perfect, Interesting, Want

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Never take yourself too seriously.

  Ariana Grande

  Pity, Laugh At Yourself, Whining

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