A Situation Is Quotes

#1. Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

Kara Swisher

#2. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Morgan Freeman

#4. How you accept a situation, is your choice and depends on your power of perception.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The best way to get what you
want from a situation is to have
clarity about the outcome you
want to achieve.

Domonique Bertolucci

#6. Everyone's mind has sort of a slum division - a flirtatious spot that doesn't give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.

Pawan Mishra

#7. Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.

Louise Erdrich

#8. In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

D.J. MacHale

#9. If a situation is bad, it's bad. Pretending otherwise does not help. The

David Hascom

#10. It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.

Stuart Wilde

#11. I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.

Carl R. Rogers

#12. Criticizing yourself all the time or being overly judgmental of a situation is like wearing dark sunglasses indoors.

Matthew McKay

#13. Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

Rashida Jones

#14. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there

Ryu Murakami

#15. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.

Robert Greene

#16. Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, "It's no big deal." Faith does not pretend that a situation is not painful or scary. What faith does do is take our problem to the One who really cares and can do something about it.

Matthew C. Mitchell

#17. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Dalai Lama XIV

#18. I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Ice Cube

#19. You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.

James Green

#20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

Regina Brett

#21. A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Henri Bergson

#22. The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#23. In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

Brian Tracy

#24. Fortunately, I find that if a situation is funny or risible enough, I tend to bleed less profusely.

J.D. Salinger

#25. What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who

Richard Ford

#26. Sometimes, the best thing we can change about a situation is our perspective.

Joan Gable

#27. In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

Tammara Webber

#29. When a situation is making you truly miserable, it's difficult to say that you are "merely" unhappy. There seems to be nothing "mere" for instance, about crying for months on end, or feeling that you are being buried alive within your own home.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Alain Badiou

#31. When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation [price disparity] that goes for all raw materials.

Yoweri Museveni

#32. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.

Brian Tracy

#33. AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

Niki De St. Phalle

#34. Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.

Bernie Sanders

#35. You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu?
Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

P.G. Wodehouse

#36. After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

Gunter Grass

#37. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Srikumar Rao

#38. If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Harold S. Kushner

#39. 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.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#40. Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.

Ronald Reagan

#41. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Ashly Lorenzana

#42. 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.

Harold Pinter

#43. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

Marci Shimoff

#44. It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Ed Stoppard

#45. Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

John Corbett

#46. Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Annalee Newitz

#47. Effort without talent is a depressing situation ... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Mike Ditka

#48. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Hunter S. Thompson

#49. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.

Tina Fey

#50. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.

Alaric Hutchinson

#51. Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

Carson McCullers

#52. Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

Gabrielle Reece

#53. It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

Claudio Reyna

#54. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details.

Chip Heath

#55. America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

Norman Vincent Peale

#56. Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will be right for a different sort of situation, but in the end, it's going to be about your view, your voice, and how you put that all together.

Ron Haviv

#57. True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#58. It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

Peter Thiel

#59. He understood very little about this strange situation, and to act in a situation one does not understand is to invite the most terrible consequences.

Stephen King

#60. The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.

Paul Tillich

#61. Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.

Charles Dickens

#62. Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#63. Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.

Mathias Rust

#64. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick

#65. This whole situation is so fucked up. This game. This thing between us. It's exhausting. God, I'm just so sick of it and tired of hating Mr. Black one minute to wanting a future with you the next. A future I know will never happen.

Ella Dominguez

#66. Is that your professional take on the situation? I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#67. What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

Robert Ardrey

#68. A look of faith knows what God says about a situation - and what God says is final.

T. B. Joshua

#69. And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Sylvia Plath

#70. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

#71. In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.

Walter Benjamin

#72. In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Jim Rohn

#73. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.

James Van Praagh

#74. To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Desmond Tutu

#75. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Charles F. Stanley

#76. It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Lemony Snicket

#77. My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#78. Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

Arthur Lynch

#79. It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me; perhaps it is because I am always ready to meet an agreeable situation a little more than halfway.

A. Edward Newton

#80. Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#81. The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

James Vila Blake

#82. Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#83. Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

Edward Albee

#84. The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

#85. The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic
drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater,
you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.

Jeff Garlin

#86. One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.

Sahara Sanders

#87. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#88. When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Shunryu Suzuki

#89. So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

David Cottrell

#90. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

#91. Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

#92. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

Jonas Gahr Store

#93. Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Vladimir Nabokov

#94. Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.

Sunday Adelaja

#95. Impatience is really a condition for people with control issues; people become impatient, and angry, when they find themselves in any situation beyond their control.

Zane

#96. This whole situation is like a great big zit that needs popping," she continued. "The damage is already done - your face looks like shit and no concealer's gonna cover it. You might as well squeeze hard and get your money shot. You'll both feel better afterward.

Joanna Wylde

#97. After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

Bruno Bauer

#98. Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.

Norm Coleman

#99. The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

Brian Eno

#100. If you feel trapped in a situation and are complaining about it, figure out how to untrap yourself and stop complaining. Save your energy for further figuring out and when there is an increase in courage.

Art Hochberg