Quotes About Situation

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.

Everybody, will you please just sit for a minute? Like children in a game of musical chairs, Tommy's three guests immediately reach for the nearest chair, pull it out from the table, and sit---even her brother. Well, says Tommy. Something in my life goes according to plan.

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

This was hopeless. In a novel, Adrian wouldn't just have accepted things as they were put to him. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? Adrian should have gone snooping, or saved up his pocket money and employed a private detective; perhaps all four of us should have gone off on a Quest to Discover the Truth. Or would that have been less like literature and too much like a kids' story?

This was hopeless. In a novel, Adrian wouldn't just have accepted things as they were put to him. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

Res ipsa loquitur.

A standard feature of situation comedy has some form of the main character talking trash to someone about a husband, wife, girl friend, boy friend, boss, or acquaintance, only to see the listener's expression change in a telling way. She's/He's standing right behind me, right? is often the pained question of the speaker. (Loud canned laughter follows.)

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Always blame conditions, not men

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

It's funny how money change a situation.

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Sorry," he said, his voice thick and gruff. "It's morning and you're sitting on me. That's a combination meant to bring any man down.

My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'