Situation Quotes
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.
Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.
You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.
I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.
Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.
The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?
Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.
It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.
The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.
All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.
There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.
Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.