Quotes About Situation

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.

Where you're running out of time, you have these brainwave moments. It's allowing the space to have them, even in an incredibly tight situation.

We are special people, if only by power. But if I tried to keep that knowledge forward in my mind, I'd be paralyzed. Here I am, at this moment, in this situation, with all this to do. What I've learned, Ruby, is how I can play. Whatever I do—I, the person I am and have been made—I have to do it that way to win.

A small way to have control in a tense situation, I suppose

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

We can't have a conversation." "I'm being quiet." "Yeah, but I'm sitting alone. This looks weird." "Then don't talk. I'll do a monologue. 'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks--

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real.

I've heard it said that prayer doesn't change a situation for you so much as it changes you for the situation.

anger instead of love, is our wall. Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

The only thing lacking in any situation is our own awareness of love.

All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.

He suspected he drank to give himself a way of accounting for the vast difference between any present situation and the intentions that brought him to it.

Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.

They knew it was a centuries-old tactic to wait for the right situation to arise, so that the lawmakers could be stampeded into passing some law which seemed only to apply to this given condition but in actuality broadened police powers over a wide area of man's actions.

He spoke in that reminiscent, unctuous voice men use when they tell you that sort of thing more to savour an enjoyable past situation, than to impart information which might be of interest.

A complicated situation appeared merely to be accumulating additional complicated factors.

cannot envision any situation in which our need for tax revenue in the future is not going to be higher than it is today.

Man can affect his own development and that of his surroundings only so far as he has a clear view of what the possibilities of action are open to him. To do this he has to understand the historical situation in which he finds himself: and once he does this, then he can play an active part in modifying that situation. The man of action is the true philosopher: and the philosopher must of necessity be a man of action.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.