Quotes About Situation

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

If you want to help someone in a bad situation, you need to give them the opportunity to work their way out of it.

You aren't the thing that needs to change. It's that you are overcome by your situation, by the way the world has descended on you. There is much in you that is young and new – and not just in you. In any person, even the oldest conceivable person. That's what it means to be living – to engage with the cacophony of objects.

Who would dare attack such a king?" "Who would want to?" Celie agreed. "He'd probably give them a puppy and win them right over." "I'm sure if the situation were serious enough, he'd give them at least two dogs," Queen Celina said.

There is a sentence in the Old Testament which I think has some reference to our situation today. It says: "And you shall be cursed because thou did not serve thy God, in joy and gladness amidst the abundance of things." [Deuteronomium 28:47] We have an abundance of things but we serve them and without joy and gladness.

Always consider the context.

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Then she thought she was making a drama of the situation. She always did. Vera could never be part of a story without playing a leading role; this time the role was that of the heartless friend.

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.

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

As a writer, you always try to imagine, 'What if I were in a situation like this? How would I react?'

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they're in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.

There's a lot of pressure that comes with being a NFL quarterback wherever you're at, and I'm ready to tackle any situation that's in front of me.

Let the Palestinians run their affairs: create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people.

It's very important for singers to feature in their videos because when we do playback for Bollywood, we tend to become the voice of the character - whether it's the actor or a situation that we are singing for.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.

The player option allows me to, hopefully, sign a lucrative deal in my prime, before retirement. If you're in a situation where you've played to a level where you can make more money, then you opt out and you make more money. And if you play really poorly, then you opt in and take the money that's scheduled to be on that piece of paper.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

The Goldstone Committee was formed in April of 2009, after I was not prime minister. So it was a new political situation.