Assessing Situation Quotes

#1. Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

Jonathan Lethem

#2. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

Brene Brown

#3. Why would that woman shoot me? We had dinner reservations later!

Gunter Vogler

#4. The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

James Chanos

#5. Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

Richard Artschwager

#6. I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Mark Ruffalo

#7. If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

David F. Jakielo

#8. I am God in nature;
I am a weed by the wall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, assessing a Polish crisis in 1984, said: "There's continuing ground for serious concern and the situation remains serious. The longer it remains serious, the more ground there is for serious concern.

William Zinsser

#10. I believe it was Sartre who said, "Hell is other people," and I suspect he wrote that after spending an hour with overinvolved parents who won't stop yelling at coaches, instructors, or crying four-year-olds who really just want a snow cone.

Jenny Lawson

#11. Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation.

Tom Sims