Quotes About Predicament

Good Morning. You're in trouble.

there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.

She set out toward the stairs, and the Cadillac driver anticipated her coming predicament, and he threw out a Wait gesture, and went up to meet her. He collapsed her bag's handle and carried it down, ahead of her, as if showing her the way. He put the bag in the trunk, and she got in the rear seat, and he got back behind the wheel, and the car pulled out and drove away.

Ohmigosh. No food at all." Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. She blinked back tears. And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. "I am going to be so superskinny by pageant time!

He's foredoomed

We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand weaknesses, we have insisted on both unlimited freedom and unlimited power. It would now seem clear that, if we want to stop the devastation of the earth, the growing threats to our food, water, air, and fellow creatures, we must find some way to limit both.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

I'm in the soup!

MacSweeney enjoyed his predicament to the utmost and directed many a good-humored jest his way. But Kathleen, ever the lady, twinkled inside and preserved an outward air of perfect deportment.

I make my argument that Buddhism's diagnosis of the human predicament is fundamentally correct, and that its prescription is deeply valid and urgently important.

The absence of meaning is not a call to despair or an invitation to leap joyfully into the abyss. Instead, the world's stubborn silence leads us to acknowledge our common predicament and spurs us to rebel against it.

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

sometimes there are no choices but poor ones.

She thought that perhaps what she longed to hear was that almost every life was arranged like this, around a void where love should have been and was not, and that her predicament was therefore an ordinary one.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Similarly, at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics, and literature alike.

The only choice was between falling on rocks or falling on water, and that was a choice that more or less made itself.

He never had any choices.

a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. —George Polya When

Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.

Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key.