Quotes About Predicament

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.

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

I've tucked and tried to roll after that first spread-eagle spin but soon discovered the universal truth that bowling-ball-shaped objects bounce downhill much faster than do mannequin-shaped objects. In my current predicament, speed, obviously, was not my friend.

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

In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you're addicted to opium!

Bilo je uzaludno razumom napadati ?vrste bedeme iracionalnih osje?aja od kojih je, kažu, umiješana ženska duša. Naš je razgovor od samog po?etka dobio loš predznak.

Lo único divertido del asunto era mi existencia, la existencia de un hombre borrado por la historia, de los manuales de literatura y de la guía de teléfonos, de un hombre muerto que volvía a la vida en una sorprendente reencarnación para predicar a centenares de miles de jóvenes socialistas la gran verdad de la astrología.

Ik denk.' Nietzsche trekt deze bewering, gedicteerd door een grammaticale conventie die eist dat elk werkwoord een onderwerp heeft, in twijfel. In feite, zegt hij, 'komt een gedachte wanneer 'zij' wil, zodanig dat het een vervalsing van de feiten is om te zeggen: het subject 'ik' is de voorwaarde van het predikaat 'denk'. Een gedachte komt tot de filosoof 'van buitenaf, uit de hoogte of uit de diepte, als gebeurtenissen of bliskemschichten die voor hem bestemd zijn'.

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

If there is no solution, there is no problem.

Sometimes the choices you are given are bad ones, no matter which way you go. And therefore the consequences are bad ones, as well.

And they were always testifying as to how God or Christ or Divine Grace had rescued them from this or that predicament—never how they had rescued any one else. And

Ultimately, the loss becomes immortal and hole is more familiar than tooth. The tongue worries the phantom root, the mind scans the heart's chambers to verify its emptiness. There is the thing itself and then there is the predicament of its cavity.

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

there is inevitably something of "us" in the stories we tell about the past. This is the historian's predicament, and it is foolish to think there is some method, however well intentioned, that can extricate us from this predicament. (p. 10, paperback edition)

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wondered whether she and Saeed had done anything by moving, whether the faces and buildings had changed but the basic reality of their predicament had not.

To flee forever is beyond the capacity of most: at some point even a hunted animal will stop, exhausted, and awaits its fate, if only for a while.

That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

And yet to every bad, there is a worse.