Quotes About Predicament

To get the votes Hitler had only to take advantage of the times, which once more, as the Thirties began, saw the German people plunged into despair; to obtain the support of those in power he had to convince them that only he could rescue Germany from its disastrous predicament

What looks like a person problem is often a situation problem.

She claims I've got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

What a predicament! We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are. Our attempts to find lasting pleasure, lasting security, are at odds with the fact that we're part of a dynamic system in which everything and everyone is in process.

There was an old saying about a rock and a hard place.

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.

Off the record, I had envisioned a little more peer support, nothing overwhelming, perhaps a few organized protests, maybe some irate colleagues marching arms linked, a little rioting, perhaps a few burned cars. After all, I had been a member in good standing of the creative community and was certain my predicament would infuriate my union brethren and fellow artists.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

How does the God of the universe demonstrate infinite love? By allowing man to get in a predicament that only God's death could solve. No greater love hath any man than he that lays down his life for his friends. And nothing less than the death of God Himself availed to satisfy His holiness and justice.

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

It just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

The lady or the tiger? My lady, the tiger.

The most preferable of evils.

It was the lesser of two evils.

I'm almost always in a predicament.

I'm twenty-one," she said indignantly. "Really?" "Yes, why do you sound skeptical?" "I wouldn't have expected to find a woman of your age in such a predicament." "I'm almost always in a predicament." Pandora jerked as she felt a gentle pressure on her back. "Hold

This, Tolstoy says, is our human predicament: we're the man clutching the branch. Death awaits us. There is no escape. And so we distract ourselves by licking whatever drops of honey come within our reach.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

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

The instruction is to relate compassionately with where we find ourselves and to begin to see our predicament as workable.

That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.

It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.