The Situations Quotes

#1. Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

James Gray

#2. None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. To be faithful, to be creative, we need to be able to change. To change! And why must I change? So that I can adapt to the situations in which I must proclaim the Gospel. To stay close to God, we need to know how to set out; we must not be afraid to set out.

Pope Francis

#4. I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

Arthur Bradford

#5. When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you.

Giridhar Alwar

#6. I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.

Rajneesh

#7. It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.

King Hussein I

#8. Finding your voice is something you have to keep working at. Your voice as a comic evolves the same way that you evolve. You have to find out what works for you. How can you express your opinion, your take on the situations in a way that feels natural to you? That's where you find your voice.

Dov Davidoff

#9. Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

Madeleine Albright

#10. Peace is experienced when we accepts all the situations without any resistance whether good or bad.

Gian Kumar

#11. The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.

Michael Boatman

#12. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

Jonah Hill

#13. We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

Starhawk

#14. Just look up any symbol, and you'll find that the meanings behind that symbol are revealed in a manner you can actually apply to the situations that are affecting your life- and the choices that are available to you right now!

Leon Nacson

#15. Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Edward St. Aubyn

#17. Say yes to the open door.
Say yes to the situations that stretch you and scare you and ask you to be a btter you than you think you can be.
Say yes to the movement that will only come once.

Annie F. Downs

#18. While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.

Julie Klassen

#19. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

Elton John

#20. If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

Sara Sheridan

#21. There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

Thayer David

#22. Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

Jeff Bridges

#23. if you continue allowing external circumstances to dictate how you feel, you'll always be at the mercy of the situations in your life that are completely beyond your control.

Dana Wilde

#24. When the resistance is gone, so are the demons. It's like a koan that we can work with by learning how to be more gentle, how to relax, and how to surrender to the situations and people in our lives.

Pema Chodron

#25. Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

Jaggi Vasudev

#26. If you go against growth, you go against yourself. How ready are we to face, accept and deal with the situations that comes to us unexpectedly in our partners. It takes a big heart to face situations but above all it takes simplicity, humility and self denial to show true love and care.

William Pious Akakpo

#27. It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Diana Wynne Jones

#28. Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

Shashi Tharoor

#29. In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Ava DuVernay

#30. My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

Guy Fieri

#31. You have to make peace with the situations that are in pieces.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#32. I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski

#33. The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

Andy Andrews

#34. From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Polybius

#35. I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For 'November Blues,' I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.

Sharon Draper

#36. The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

#37. With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

Garrett Hedlund

#38. The theoretically interesting category-mistakes are those made by people who are perfectly competent to apply concepts, at least in the situations with which they are familiar, but are still liable in their abstract thinking to allocate those concepts to logical types to which they do not belong)

Anonymous

#39. Rejection has long ties pulling the pain of yesterday into the situations of today. What felt hopeless yesterday will feed a hopelessness into today unless we cut those ties.

Lysa TerKeurst

#40. If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that.

Nicole Holofcener

#41. Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

Robin Sharma

#42. That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.

James S.A. Corey

#43. Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life.

Jon Lee Anderson

#44. Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Bergen Evans

#45. I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

#46. No matter what situations you experience in life, think about them as you draw conclusions about what the situations means for you

Sunday Adelaja

#47. We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.

Joyce Meyer

#48. Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

Gregg Easterbrook

#49. When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

Beth Moore

#51. Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Susan L. Taylor

#52. For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

Zoe Kravitz

#53. When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Luigi Pirandello

#54. You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they're going to end up.

Laird Barron

#55. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#56. Comparisons should be restricted to statistical figures and studies. When you compare yourself with others, two sorts of situations arise- You find yourself better than others You find yourself below others Both the situations could go against you.

Zayne Parker

#57. If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

Pema Chodron

#58. I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny ... What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

Lucille Ball

#59. I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Jerome Kern

#60. No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

John Holt

#61. Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.

Mary Engelbreit

#62. All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jock Sturges

#63. It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.

Larry McMurtry

#64. Sometimes, Gus didn't understand how he found himself in the situations that he did. Even if he was the common denominator, he obviously was not at fault. There had to be some other cosmic power that lorded over him. That made sense. Well, a lot of things made sense now that he was high.

T.J. Klune

#65. As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Jonathan Coe

#66. What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

Charlie Cox

#67. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life.

Paul David Tripp

#68. Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#69. Those with a perpetual victim mindset tend to create the situations from which they suffer.

Steve Maraboli

#70. Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

Mark Wahlberg

#71. We are not in the situations that we never choose.

Glenda Radores

#72. John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

Richard L. Pratt Jr.

#73. I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

Wally Lamb

#74. You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Zig Ziglar

#75. I need little peace now,i cant handle the situations.

Pavankumar Nagaraj

#76. well-documented findings in the study of attributions is that we are more likely to ascribe traits to others, whereas we explain our own actions according to the situations we are in.

Brian Little

#77. One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

J.J. Abrams

#78. They'll want to know if I've written about them. Or, even as the title indicates with the names changed and such, they'll want to see if they can recognize any of the situations or characters laid out in the dozen stories. And that is just a small subset of a larger potential market.

Rich Siegel

#79. Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

Fanny Burney

#80. I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.

James Vincent McMorrow

#81. The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life
what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#82. With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face

Sunday Adelaja

#83. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#84. The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

Evan Meekins

#85. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.

Seanan McGuire

#86. When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman.

Mindy Kaling

#87. It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.

John Bracken

#88. Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.

Ana Ortega

#89. He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

Branch Rickey

#90. When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations.

Tyne O'Connell

#91. If one does not get it into his head from the very beginning that the world is full of unseemly situations, for the most part his demeanour will be poor and he will not be believed by others.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#92. All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

Derrick Bell

#93. Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

Leon Brown

#94. Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

Ralph Fiennes

#95. Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#96. Life is beautiful,though the circumstances and situations around us may not say so,but life is certainly beautiful

Wogu Donald

#97. So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a thousand times odder.

Anthony Powell

#98. As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Alan Cohen

#99. In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Daisaku Ikeda

#100. They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Daryl Gates