Situation Quotes

I do feel I'm kind of a magnet for crazy, and if there isn't enough crazy, I will insert myself in a situation that I feel has comedy potential.

The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope with our situation more productively.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.

Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.