Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson

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

Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael Stuhlbarg

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

Paul de Man
Paul de Man

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

You can film the most exciting car chase and the most exciting stunts, but if you don't care about the person inside the car, and you don't care about their predicament, you're not really going to care about the action, either.

Polo G
Polo G

I've been a signed artist, but it's only been a full year-and-a-half. I'm still kind of new to money and this kind of lifestyle, so me being in a messed up predicament wasn't too long ago.

Shigeru Yoshida
Shigeru Yoshida

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.

Sophie B. Hawkins
Sophie B. Hawkins

Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams

Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that of many Western Jews, who struggle with questions of assimilation at a time when marrying outside the faith is common.

Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes

You'll see in 'Carol' a lot of shots shot through windows, glass and awnings, with interruptions between where we are and where our object is. To me, I hope that that conjures the whole act of looking as a predicament, as something that is never easy and never completely attainable.

Tom Hooper
Tom Hooper

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