Quotes About Predicament

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

The virus is fostering a commonality that we weren't aware of, a biological commonality, where someone else's health and behavior can really affect our own—whether they have health insurance, whether they are wearing their mask. It's a rehearsal for climate change in that we recognize that there is no escaping our predicament. There's no other place to go. We're coming to see that we're really all in the same boat.

Muchos científicos predicen la debacle total de todas las especies de peces en menos de cincuenta años, mientras se realizan intensos esfuerzos por atrapar, matar y comer más animales marinos

It is a choice I've made, yet it is also a choice made with few other options available.

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

Each of us has our own unique karmic predicament, our own unique work to do. The predicament is that there is nowhere to stand, because our identification with the person who has the karma is changing too. As you develop the witness and identify more with your spiritual heart, karma just is.

Dac? nu exista solu?ie, atunci nu exista nici problem?.

That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.

In a sentence: Life is bad, but so is death. Of course, life is not bad in every way. Neither is death bad in every way. However, both life and death are, in crucial respects, awful. Together, they constitute an existential vise—the wretched grip that enforces our predicament.

Despite some limited consolations, the human condition is in fact a tragic predicament from which none of us can escape, for the predicament consists not merely in life but also in death.

She wanted to be acknowledged, her predicament given its value.

There you are, Arthur," said Ford with the air of someone reaching the conclusion of his argument, "you think you've got problems.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

It was, he supposed, a manifestation of that romantic and unreasonable phenomenon known as chivalry. If he extricated himself alive from this predicament, he would see to it that whatever follies he committed in the future, chivalry would certainly not be found amongst them. Experience had cured him of any leanings in that direction.

Shit-oh-dear. It was an expression used by his pal Tomlinson to denote any unexpected quandary that should be dealt with but was beyond control.

(C)(P) IN THE COMING YEARS I PREDICT THAT MEN WILL FACE A MUCH GREATER PREDICAMENT FROM THOSE WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS SMARTER TO USE THEIR -IPHONES- AND TRACK THEIR EVERY MOVE OF INFIDELITY. MOST MEN ARE JUST CLEVER, BUT NOT WISE!

Sometimes there are no good choices.

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

the economic pain gripping the United States will not actually be the fault of immigrants — or China, Muslims, environmentalists, or even terrorists. Nor is the essential problem Big Government: As we have seen, the desperate effort to inflate government spending and power is more of an effect than a cause of the nation's predicament.

Her predicament (the word she had come to prefer in her mind, rather than circumstances) had turned her into quite a philosopher, when by nature she'd always been a pragmatist. For instance, one allegedly wasn't rewarded for all of the good one did until on departed the Earthly Plane. But if you committed one (albeit epic) transgression, a lifetime of damnation seemed required.

Our neocortex has made us meaning-seeking creatures, acutely aware of the perplexity and tragedy of our predicament, and if we do not discover some ultimate significance in our lives, we fall easily into despair.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

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.