Predicament Quotes

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
Charlie Chaplin

Why, Matter, Though

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

Life, Feast, Spectacle

Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James

Life, Death, Precedes

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
Paracelsus

Dreams, Great, God

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
Jesse Jackson

End, Sides, Town

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
Tom Hooper

History, Emotions, Monarchy

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.
Wesley Snipes

Family, Understand, Sometimes

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.
ASAP Rocky

Life, Best, Live

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

Life, Failure, Perfect

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Paul de Man

Death, Name, Linguistic

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
Shigeru Yoshida

Fear, Whether, Pay

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
Richard Avedon

Human, May, Sometimes

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