Quotes by Predicaments A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured. Abraham Kaplan predicaments problem mean predicament, n. The wage of consistency. Ambrose Bierce consistency predicaments habit If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. Elbert Hubbard predicaments friendship enemy There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from. Francois de La Rochefoucauld bits predicaments crazy Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana spectacles predicaments life Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet. James Frecheville predicaments hate havens Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament. James G. Frazer predicaments creatures men We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament. Leonard Cohen predicaments forget needs Ageing is a privilege not a predicament. Martin Firrell ageing predicaments privilege Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. Michael Joseph Oakeshott predicaments misery pursuit-of-happiness In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. Napoleon Bonaparte wrongdoing predicaments impossible Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. Ram Dass predicaments important journey We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever. Reinhold Niebuhr communist predicaments common We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament. Reinhold Niebuhr predicaments judging common Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. Richard Avedon predicaments sometimes thinking If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems. Sydney J. Harris predicaments problem answers The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us. Terence McKenna opaque predicaments real The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been. Terence McKenna predicaments miracle long When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves Viktor E. Frankl predicaments capable Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. Woody Allen predicaments obsessed hero