In Situ Quotes

#1. To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

Susan Vreeland

#2. Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Aesop

#3. When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Brian Bell

#4. I didn't answer her. All I could have said was I don't know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

Jeff VanderMeer

#5. Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

John Hoeven

#7. The house of magic has many rooms.

Eugene Burger

#8. Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

Marge Piercy

#9. It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#10. As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

Ricky Hatton

#11. False enthusiasm does not come easily to six-year-olds ... although, sad to say, it's a skill most of us learn fairly rapidly.

Stephen King

#12. Love one another with great passion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Doug Larson

#14. When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#15. If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

Rene Redzepi

#16. I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.

Willie Geist

#17. As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.

Emile Hirsch

#18. The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.

Max Horkheimer

#19. Sometimes you have tons of money, and still you are miserable, you are not satisfied. The bow of gratitude and arrow of mercy will give you everything. Gratitude will turn your attitude into mercy, mercy will bring you dharma, and dharma will give you solid prosperity.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#20. If a man's life could be capitalized as X, the risk at Y, and the estimated damage from explosion at V, then a logician might contend that if V is less than X over Y, the bomb should be blown up; but if V over Y is greater than X, an attempt should be made to avoid explosion in situ.

Michael Ondaatje