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Quotes About Situation

My experience in previous theaters of war had taught me that the more critical a situation, or the more alarming the reports, the more calmly every experienced leader should react.
~ Hans von Luck
What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
By understanding the unbelievers' situation, believers can see the nightmare of unbelief and learn from it. As a result, they will be very grateful to Allah for granting them faith.
~ Harun Yahya
He was the soul of kindness and concern. The fact that he had talked to my father about this made me want to stab him. But I only said, "I'll talk to Patrick. This doesn't sit right with me.
~ Laurie Colwin
Your new vibration is your earned situation and your reward for the work you have done raising the planet's energy. Don't believe anyone who tells you exactly what will happen to your planet at a given time. This is all in transition, and is totally up to you to change.
~ Lee Carroll
Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.
~ Lemony Snicket
The trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.
~ Lemony Snicket
Nagy sóhajjal fölvette hát azt a könyvet, amelyet az elÅ'bb Violetnek ajánlott, és mint annyiszor életében, most is az olvasásban talált menedéket a borzalmas helyzet elÅ'l.
~ Lemony Snicket
Sentence one is character + vocation + current situation. Sentence two starts with "When" and is what I call the Doorway of No Return––the thing that pushes the Lead into the main plot. Sentence three begins with "Now" and the death (physical, professional, or psychological/spiritual) stakes.
~ James Scott Bell
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.
~ Jane Austen
Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.
~ Jane Austen
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
~ Jane Austen
It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
~ Jane Austen
To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.
~ Jane Austen
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
~ Jane Austen
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
~ Jane Austen
Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet: She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.
~ Janet Aylmer
We have to understand that the five-day format has its own uncertainties, unlike ODIs or T20s. In ODIs, you know that you have to field for 50 overs only, while in Test cricket, there may be a situation that a team might bat for one-and-a-half to two days.
~ MS Dhoni
Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
~ Rian Johnson
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
~ Eric Alterman
Messi plays in Spain, we know he makes a difference, but if you've played against him then maybe you're aware of situations that can repeat on the pitch. But Messi is Messi, with his talent, he may send a spark with very little and make the difference. He is unpredictable.
~ Didier Deschamps
I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
~ Andy Serkis
The film has been titled 'Uncle,' and will revolve around a family, like 'Shutter.' The social and political milieu of Kerala is of much importance in the movie and it's about an unusual situation a family is made to face.
~ Joy Mathew
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
~ Martha Plimpton