Quotes of Predicament - somelinesforyou

“ I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time. ”

- George Carey

“ Don't argue about difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty. ”

- Henry L. Stimson

“ Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. ”

- Abdul Kalam

“ What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. ”

- Jeannette Rankin

“ Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I am now faced with a terrible dilemma. ”

- Howard Stern

“ I think there is a good basis for conversation between the two sides aimed at ironing out those difficulties and seeing that we don't get into crisis again. ”

- Richard Butler

“ There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that. ”

- Jacob K. Javits

“ Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. ”

- Robert Lynd

“ Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. ”

- Fritz Reiner

“ Amazement awaits us at every corner. ”

- James Broughton

“ Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Emergencies, by their very nature, are impossible situations to handle. ”

- Rudy Giuliani

“ Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ This defendant is a repeat felon who took advantage of a medical emergency. A real neighbor in that situation would have brought dinner over. But instead, he tried to rip them off. ”

- John Parker

“ The era of recurring economic crises has come to an end. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ The game between the Czechs and the Dutch will write itself into the history of the competition. ”

- Gerard Houllier

“ If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ”

- Thomas Watson

“ Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ Yes, there is an emergency this is not just an emergency, it's obviously a chronic crisis,... This thing has been going on a long time and political rhetoric doesn't stop it. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it. ”

- Christopher Hill

“ There is a crisis. ”

- Guy Verhofstadt

“ There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. ”

- Robert Reich

“ An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. ”

- Daniel Defoe
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