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  • there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

    Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

  • Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

    Failure   Rope   Busy  
  • The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

    Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage
  • Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

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

    Christopher Isherwood (2013). “A Single Man: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan
  • The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

    Neal Stephenson (2012). “Some Remarks”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

    George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.152, Indiana University Press
  • We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?

    Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.43, Counterpoint
  • I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

    Acting   Needs   Looks  
  • The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

  • Adversity introduces a man to himself.

  • That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  • When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

    "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.
  • Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

    "Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together". Comedy, 2003.
  • If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

    Play   Looks   Emotion  
    "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.
  • So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

    allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
  • Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

    Article by Caitlin Moran, The Times, June 18, 2007.
  • I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

    Source: www.shockya.com
  • Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

    Zoos   Children   Mirrors  
  • If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.

    Eye   Men   Names  
  • Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

  • Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.

    Source: thenewinquiry.com
  • If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

    Rights   Done   Benefits  
  • Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

    Needs   Done   Littles  
  • If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

    Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
  • Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

    "Fictional character: George". "A Single Man", www.imdb.com. 2009.
  • If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.

    Confused   Believe   Men  
    "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, ("Two Concepts of Liberty"), 2002.
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