A Situation Quotes

#1. Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

Wayne Coyne

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

Glenn Close

#3. When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

Lloyd Cutler

#5. Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." - R. W. Young

Ray Kurzweil

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

Ice Cube

#7. Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromell

#8. Coup d'Oeil Concept A French expression which loosely translated means the "strike of the eye" or the "vision behind the eye." The closest English concept would be that of intuition. Intuition is defined as "perceptive insight" or "the power to discern the true nature of a situation.

Charles "Sid" Heal

#9. The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

John Shelby Spong

#10. Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

Alexander Mackendrick

#11. Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Michael Korda

#12. To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

Beth Orton

#13. What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Ellen Langer

#14. Reflection enables us to step back, to see our perspective on a situation as perhaps distorted or blind, at the very least to see if there is argument for preferring our ways, or whether it is just subjective.

Simon Blackburn

#15. There is no such thing as "false hope." Hope is not in itself a guarantee of good outcome or a cure. Hope is merely cognizing a situation as something other than hopelessness.

Richard J. Castillo

#16. If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I'm debating is the person that is writing the story or presenting the broadcast. They're not going to write the story in such a way that shows they lost.

Josh Earnest

#17. It's just a small, good thing in a situation that totally fucking sucks.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#18. All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

Mark Batterson

#19. I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#20. I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

William Vickrey

#21. If I was going to put myself into a situation wherein I had no one to depend on, I needed to step up and be the one to actually take good care of myself.The universe wouldn't simply do it for me.

Aspen Matis

#22. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...

Daniel Ellsberg

#23. Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

Curtis Jackson

#24. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

Franco Modigliani

#25. It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for?

Richard Jeni

#26. As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

John Legend

#27. If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

Ariel Sharon

#28. I won't claim I've never in my life done anything I'm ashamed of, but I haven't done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I've made, that's fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#29. I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Shirley Jackson

#30. When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

Meredith Monk

#31. It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun.

Doug Flutie

#32. Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it's always in the negative sense.

Rob Liano

#33. And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

Doris Salcedo

#34. The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Iris Murdoch

#35. Obviously when I'm put in a situation where there is a lot of attention on me, it's this weird dichotomy - I like it, because I feel like I'm a natural born performer. But I do feel the most vulnerable.

Tyler Blackburn

#36. Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#37. When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you.

Ufuoma Apoki

#38. Worrying doesn't change a situation.. it will only make it worse.

Lee Monroe

#39. Failure to recognize the difficulty in escaping a situation of high debt intolerance simply through growth and gently falling ratios of debt to GNP is one of the central errors underlying many standard calculations employed both by the private sector and by official analysts during debt crises.

Anonymous

#40. Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation..
Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation..
In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#41. I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#42. I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

Mike Birbiglia

#43. The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't have the instruments! So they've had to experiment, and the more you experiment, the more uncertainty and the higher the risk of collateral damage.

Mohamed El-Erian

#44. I will never try to steer myself into a situation that I know might create a discussion after the race any protest immediately cuts down on my social hours after the race is over.

Buddy Melges

#45. I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.

Linda Ronstadt

#46. If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

Simone Weil

#47. When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

Latrell Sprewell

#48. Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

George W. Romney

#49. A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.

Joan D. Chittister

#50. I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

Tamsin Greig

#51. The stupidity of a well-placed "dude" can really defuse a situation

Chris Lynch

#52. The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

Amy Ray

#53. When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Michael Meade

#54. Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

Chris Hadfield

#55. It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

Iyanla Vanzant

#56. I've heard it said that prayer doesn't change a situation for you so much as it changes you for the situation.

Marianne Williamson

#57. What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

William H. Macy

#58. I looked around the room trying to think of a situation that could be any worse than this, and decided that the only thing that could be worse than prison was the navy.

Chelsea Handler

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

Regina Brett

#60. Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#61. A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

Joan Robinson

#62. Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

Sayyid Qutb

#63. A person who is in the elements of his own is often
thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who aren't may
be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly
lone.

Anuj

#64. It isn't enough to feel the pressure of a situation; you must repent and change your heart ... When you cry out to God, let it be the beginning of consistent change in your life.

Terry Virgo

#65. I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that would've surprised me back in January, when I was looking forward to big new novels from several authors I really love.

David Edelstein

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#67. As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#68. It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

Tahir Shah

#69. Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Floyd Abrams

#70. I just wasn't anticipating Goblin assassins with crossbows pushing me into a situation where the only viable exit involved riding a mermaid's wheelchair into the marina.
Sometimes I think my life is too complicated.

Seanan McGuire

#71. If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.

Robert Walser

#72. When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

Leslie Jones

#73. Rather than a situation where people are naturally finding themselves reading the same thing and then talking about it, some readers are responding to celebrity in the hope that what they read will enable them to join an international conversation.

Tim Parks

#74. When faced with a situation, the confidence you stand up to that situation with usually pushes the other person to back down because the guy that is trying to start the fight doesn't really want to fight. He just wants a scene.

Sean Faris

#75. Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

Eleanor Catton

#76. Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Bruce Lee

#77. Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#78. A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

R. Edward Freeman

#79. In the monastery, you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

Muni Natarajan

#80. There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Thomas Perry

#81. A man of God is seeking a situation to exterminate nocturnal vermin. The fee is fifty pounds, half of which will be due in advance.

Brooklyn Ann

#82. It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

Joe Nichols

#83. When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.

Stewart Brand

#84. I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

Mads Mikkelsen

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

Lisa Loeb

#86. I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#87. Every little bit of stress you eliminate contributes to a more productive day. That's not being a diva; it's placing yourself in a situation that allows you to be in optimal form.

Lilly Singh

#88. We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value.

Leo Kadanoff

#89. 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.

Eugene Mirman

#90. You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.

George Lucas

#91. The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.

Wesley L. Duewel

#92. They say he "hit a square" while flying his small aircraft; a situation in which it is impossible to tell up from down or earth from sky and that he lost his way.

Alice Walker

#93. On occasion, resisting saying a public "I'm sorry" is the best way to handle a situation.

Sojourner McConnell

#94. And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

Jeremy Irons

#95. I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

Martin McGuinness

#96. If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there.

Jaggi Vasudev

#97. What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?

Alan W. Watts

#98. You don't know what you're going to do in a situation until faced with it. Life lesion learned. I was going to have to banish 'never' from my repertoire.

Abigail Barnette

#99. Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again.

Damien Echols

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

John C. Maxwell