Situation Quotes

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

You know this is a dicey situation anyway you look at it.

My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation.

In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training...period.

There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Particularly, in my situation, I needed a way out of where I was. So music was that.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

With the situation in Iraq growing ever more dangerous, the 34-member Coalition of The Willing are, one by one, dropping out to join the other coalition known as Most of The Rest of The World.

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.

The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.