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Quotes About Situation

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
~ Richard Pryor
The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.
~ Anatoly Karpov
Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.
~ Rose Byrne
The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;
~ Anna Sewell
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Val, I'm on Bourbon—" "I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don"t even ask it." Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman"s arrogant tone. "I need you in the swamp." Silence answered him. We have a situation. "Where do you need me?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Welcome home. Deposit any home of the day ending on a good note and charge toward a situation with as much planning as a train wreck.' (Carlos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
~ Edward Albee
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.
~ Midge Ure
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
~ Philip K. Dick
I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
~ Tom Stoppard
I'd say," the Ranger answered after a few seconds' deliberation, "that he'll be heading south now that he has the chance. Back into Araluen." "How do you know that?" Horace asked. He was always impressed at the two Rangers' ability to read a situation and come up with the correct answer to a problem. Sometimes, he thought, they almost seemed to have divine guidance. "I'm guessing," Halt told him.
~ John Flanagan
Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat." It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.
~ John Flanagan
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
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.
~ John Key
So, depending on the situation, one can define blues in emotional, musical, cultural, or commercial terms, and these definitions overlap at times and diverge at others.
~ Elijah Wald
Don't you realize that we've concentrated our improvement efforts too narrowly? We tried so hard to improve our bottlenecks, when what we should do is improve the CCRs as well. Otherwise we'll run into an 'inter-active' bottleneck situation. "See, the key is not in the hands of the materials people. If interactive bottlenecks emerge, chaos is inevitable; we'll have to expedite all over the place.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
But the natural emotion of the situation one could not escape from, and on Thursday night I sate up in my dressing gown till nearly one, listening to the distant firing from the boulevards. Thursday was the only day in which there was fighting of any serious kind. There has been no resistance on the part of the real people
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There were other, messier details in the story, but we didn't need to go into those now, and here.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He [Zachary] knew now that every kind of life and situation holds somewhere within it for the finding its own kernel of quiet, each small possession of mortal peace a symbol of the eternal fortress and a door to it. He would be able to hold on now through the months of storm, remembering the days of peace at the heart of them to which the way was sure.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
La enfermera no puso objeciones y lo cierto es que se tranquilizó no poco al advertir lo mucho que había cambiado Lewis ahora que esa fresca y descarada ya no estaba en casa, pues parecía predispuesta, con la mayor naturalidad, a culpar principalmente de la situación al miembro de su mismo sexo.
~ Elizabeth Jenkins