Situation Quotes

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls, who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

For me doing Cheaper By The Dozen 2 was great because I did have a lot bigger part in that movie and every situation is different.

So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

I am just focused on what's in front of me. I really can't worry about or complain about the WBO situation at this point.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

[John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.

I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

I just want to be in a winning situation. That's the whole thing. It's nothing financial.

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish. I am Jewish. So I can't hate Jewish people.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

There are many examples of female leaders who are not afraid to take responsibility and openly face the challenges in the worst situations.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.