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Quotes About Situation

the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation.
~ Daniel Wolpert
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
~ Dave Attell
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
~ James Baldwin
Too bad we don't have a flashlight." "Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.
~ James Dashner
Desterrado? ¿Y eso qué significa? -no pudo evitar la pregunta, aunque sabía que no podía ser nada bueno si Chuck pensaba que era peor que estar muerto. En ese instante, tuvo la sensación más perturbadora desde su llegada al Área. Chuck no contestó, simplemente sonrió. A pesar de todo, a pesar de lo horrible que era esa situación, se rió. Luego salió corriendo, tal vez para contarle a otro las emocionantes noticias.
~ James Dashner
She's out, Jim! The bugger's out!" Well this was great. Anybody who has driven a car with a hysterical cat hurtling around the interior will appreciate my situation.
~ James Herriot
Whatever of motive there may have been in the lawyer's query, 'Who is my neighbour?' aside from that of self-justification and a desire to retreat in the best form possible from an embarrassing situation, we may conceive to lie in the wish to find a limitation in the application of the law, beyond which he would not be bound to go. If he had to love his neighbors as he loved himself, he wanted to have as few neighbors as possible." -ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ
~ James Talmage
No reconocimos la gravedad de nuestra situación hasta varias semanas después, cuando la nieve de las montañas ya se estaba fundiendo. Bunny llevaba diez días muerto cuando lo encontraron.
~ Donna Tartt
By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I would not be at all surprised to find out....personal feelings about our situation in time, seldom in accordance with fact, so that we are always taken by surprise by 'ageing', may be an indication of a different lifespan, in the past - but that this past, in biological terms, is quite recent, and so we have not come to terms with it psychologically.
~ Doris Lessing
All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
~ Dorothy Parker
Who said anything about panicking?' snapped Arthur. 'This is still just the culture shock. You wait till I've settled down into the situation and found my bearings. Then I'll start panicking!
~ Douglas Adams
You mean, let our most excellent Congress deal with this situation in the same way it has handled our other pressing national problems, such as global warming, terrorism, education, and our crumbling infrastructure?
~ Douglas Preston
Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.
~ Aesop
Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
~ Alan Mackay
In a messianic situation there exists an environment of proba te dignum—prove yourself worthy.
~ Alan Russell
I had a fantastic time in Boston with the city, the fans were phenomenal, the organization was phenomenal, I just don't know if the playing situation was right to be quite honest.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
I love Phoenix, and I just felt like it wasn't the right situation for me anymore, and that's nothing to say anything against the city or the fans or even the players on the team. I just didn't agree with the direction that they wanted to take the team.
~ Channing Frye
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
~ Michael Foreman
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
~ Benjamin Whorf
I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.
~ Shia LaBeouf
You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.
~ Douglas Kirkland
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.
~ Luc Ferrari
The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can't have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.
~ Michael Heisley