Predicaments Quotes - Page 5

• The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Bed, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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? I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

  Jaden Smith

  Order, People, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Achievement, Tragedy, Triumph

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Enemy, Regard

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Impossible, Wrongdoing, Statesmanship

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

  Tonya Hurley

  Eye, Ideas, Knowing

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

  George Santayana

  Despair, Vitality, Reason

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.152, Indiana University Press

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• Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

  Georgette Heyer

  Needs, Done, Littles

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• The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself.

  James Nachtwey

  Ambition, Compassion, Ideas

  "War Photographer". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• 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, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Differences, Making A Difference

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Ram Dass

  Journey, Important, Cosmic

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• Life is adventure, not predicament.

  James Broughton

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• 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

  Hate, Heart, Pride

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• Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the mental work of releasing and forgiving, almost anything can be healed. The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by 'outer' methods and that we must go within to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will go back to nothing.

  Louise Hay

  Healing, Mean, People

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• I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Mean, Beer

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

  Colin Firth

  Mirrors, Expression, Looking In The Mirror

  "Fictional character: George". "A Single Man", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Men, Agony

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• Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sarcastic, Humorous, Comedian

  "Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together". Comedy, 2003.

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• They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

  Ric Ocasek

  People, Insanity, Insane

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• When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope with our situation more productively.

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Life, Motivational, Attitude

  Kevin Eikenberry (2005). “Vantage Points on Learning and Life”, p.148, Dog Ear Publishing

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• It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Eye, Responsibility

  Dan Millman (2006). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.28, H J Kramer

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• Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Failure, Rope, Busy

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

  Isaiah Berlin

  Spring, Matter, Berlin

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• 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

  Inspirational, Technology, Race

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Some Remarks”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Men, Creatures, Mortals

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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