The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship. And stewardshi...
Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
Never ever allow your present predicament to alter your goals in life”.
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.
George: Looking in the mirror staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.
Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breaching fish causing ringed ripples and a satisfying plo...
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared... I, however, considered myself a professional.
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.
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.
Oi, stop looking at my nethers. Be a gentleman, look away. When a gal’s in a predicament you should ‘elp ‘er out
