Quotes About Predicament

On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity.

Forced teaming is an effective way to establish premature trust because a we're-in-the-same-boat attitude is hard to rebuff without feeling rude. Sharing a predicament, like being stuck in a stalled elevator or arriving simultaneously at a just-closed store will understandably move people around social boundaries. But forced teaming is not about coincidence; it is intentional and directed, and it is one of the most sophisticated manipulations.

We're in a tight spot!

when you make a sequence of wrong choices, eventually you're left with no choice at all.

I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

AH the fat's in the fire.

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.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

In that moment I began to see that there are times when there is no best choice. There is only this choice and that choice, and both are terrible.

There was no choice, ultimately.

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure?

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.

A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.

So everyone has that problem, models have that problem, too.

The trap had teeth.

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.