Situation Quotes

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

It was just a terribly stressful situation and dreary. A few months after [Eva Braun] suicide attempt, [Adolf] Hitler moved us both to the apartment, it was in the summer.

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

I think people need to remember what the situation was when President [Barack] Obama came into office.

Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation." "How do you figure?" "They are still breathing, aren't they?

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.