Situation Quotes

Be who you are in every situation.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

I will say this. We have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you can have right now in Ring of Honor.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.