Quotes About Situation

It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

We'd sit down on one of those wooden benches and she'd tell me how she was sorry, and it had all been a mistake. But things like that never happen, except in really awful movies.

When we feel incapable of making the situation better, we go into hiding. Out of hopelessness and despair, we become convinced that any opportunity for a meaningful interaction with our beloved is impossible and we lose the ability to reach out.

In fear we know what threatens us, we are energized by the situation, our perceptions are sharper, and we take steps to run or in the other appropriate ways to overcome the danger. In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger.

What amazed Cardinal Sandomme not a little was that all the bishops present were behaving as if there were something new and unexpected in the situation, as if some new calamity had suddenly hit mankind's spiritual fiber. Yet this was nothing but the latest step on the road of spiritual degradation mankind had taken long ago . . .

120 journées is a diabolically ingenious machine which simultaneously inverts the reality of Sade's situation and subverts the morality that justified it.

For the first time, on March 17, President Trump declared the situation a pandemic—and promptly claimed he had known that all along.

The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

Sitting in a van twiddling my thumbs while you bone up is one thing, but attacking her? No way. Bone up? Cale asked uncertainly. Get a boner, the man explained, and then added, Or an erection to those of us too damned old to know modern lingo... not to mention be able to judge character anymore.

What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a unified trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.

The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underestimating the importance of situation and context.

What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a "unified" trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.

Coupling is the idea that behaviors are linked to very specific circumstances and conditions.

Happiness is the decision to find something good in every situation.

Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.

Power has the power to prevent our annihilation for the time being. On condition that we always remember, at every moment, that in a situation like ours power can only prevent. It can't settle anything and it can't solve anything. It can only stave off disaster for a while.

You have the right not to take on a responsibility for an impossible situation

From where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad.

Is there any-thing that you particularly like in the situation of that house? Houses, Sir, nay, Countries, will be alike to me, in the company of those I value.

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Angelica,' said Harry, 'you're unique. I can't think of another female who would stage a farewell scene in a situation like this. In fact, in all my experience--' 'Stretching over many nations and five continents?' 'You know,' said Harry after a moment, 'if you don't get rid of that habit of quoting, people will start to think you might be intelligent.' 'Or,' said Angelica levelly, 'that I'm hiding a heart behind the cynicism.

Sartre says, "Those who claim that the Arabs started the war, that they are criminals, forget to consider the situation of the Palestinians, the absolutely insufferable situation of the Palestinians. They also forget that the Arabs from the beginning have been led by British maneuvers to take a negative attitude toward Israel, an attitude which has persisted since 1948, when an idiotic war was provoked.

In this sort of situation, all it takes is one idiot to suggest witchcraft as the problem, and from that point on, confirmation bias does the rest. Once your brain filter is set to look for witches, all evidence fits into the "witch" frame.

The start of the tweet generally contains contempt, mocking, or sarcasm. The second part of the tweet includes either an insult that seems too angry for the situation or a mischaracterization of your point as an absurd absolute.