Situation Quotes

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.