Extreme Situation Quotes

#1. In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us
clearly, openly, without hesitations ... We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#2. I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

Maisie Williams

#3. I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

Jonathan LaPaglia

#4. Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

Boaz Lavie

#5. When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.

Ryu Murakami

#6. Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

Boaz Lavie

#7. It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

Eleanor Catton

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

Laura Marling

#9. Fainting is for preteen girls and those really weird goats. I do not faint!

Melissa F. Olson

#10. Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

Maturin Murray Ballou

#11. Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.

T.F. Hodge

#12. Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

Ruth Draper

#13. Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

Rand Beers

#14. Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Frank Capra

#15. It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

Breyten Breytenbach

#16. We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

Jamie Oliver

#17. To avoid melodrama, recognize that emotions run along a continuum, from mild to extreme. For each situation, know where your character is along that continuum and choose appropriate descriptors.

Angela Ackerman

#18. For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

Ian McDiarmid

#19. As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.

Jonas Gahr Store

#20. Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

William Gilmore Simms

#21. 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.

Sinead O'Connor

#22. It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Omar Bongo

#23. If a situation requires swearing to God it is - by definition - extreme.

Pam Houston

#24. I have heard that in moments of extreme terror and suspense, our minds can deliver to our aid a remedy for the situation if we have the courage not to flinch from it. Too often we are doomed to fail simply because we believe too quickly that we will.

Jeff Wheeler

#25. Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

Keith Urban

#26. The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself - without the assistance of governments.

Pierre-jospeh Proudhon

#27. The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.

Martin Jacques

#28. Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.

Vladimir Putin

#29. Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

Mariano Rajoy

#30. People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

#31. The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

Jonathan Franzen

#32. I have no wish to talk nonsense."
"If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

Charlotte Bronte

#33. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

Tim McGraw

#34. Though this situation is extreme, have you ever found yourself in an unexpected place but where, deep down, you knew you were supposed to be?

C.S. Lewis

#35. Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

Amanda Ripley