Quotes About Situation

In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police sort of reminding them of basic tenants of crowd control, such as minimum use of force to effect an arrest. I tell... the police that they may have been put in a dangerous situation by their superiors.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

I can't imagine a situation where, as FBI director, I would be giving a press conference on an uncharged individual, much less talking in detail about it.

Whatever my contract situation is, that will be going on in the background.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

The generosity of spirit that is usually shown by advanced democracies disappears when the public feel two things: that their government is not in control of the situation, and that their daily lives are being severely disrupted by the consequences of this lack of control.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.