Quotes About Situation

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. —AUGUSTE COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, Leçon 48

The event isn't really the problem; it's our response to the event.

Ufthak nutted him, and Deffrow sat down rapidly, involuntarily, and in a state of some confusion.

It must be recognized that an ideology is always out of phase with the situation in which it is employed, for an ideology has always emerged as a response to a preceding situation, the attributes of which are different from the current situation.

1. By flushing the sperm down the toilet, you flush the lucky ones. Lucky ones considering the economic situation. 2. With inflation rising, a person starts a serious relationship with a masturbator.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

That he had received these checks now he put down to human intervention – officialdom trying to 'control the situation' using their usual method of clamping down on people's rights.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

When a man learns the art of thinking from the end, that man is master of his fate. For he defines his end, he formulates an aim in life, and then feels himself right into the situation of that end.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

Our ranks and estates are so irritated these days that they take personally whatever appears in printed books: such, evidently, is the mood in the air. It is enough simply to say that there is a stupid man in a certain town, and it already becomes personal; suddenly a gentleman of respectable appearance pops up and shouts: "But I, too, am a man, which means that I, too, am stupid"—in short, he instantly grasps the situation.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

For Lilith, it was a comfortable, mindless activity that gave her something to do when there was nothing she could do about her situation.

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.

Nor I, I don't think there could be a situation like that. Love is shining and righteous; there's nothing hidden about it. If a man 's heart is really ardent, how can he give the appearance of being cold and disinterested?

If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.

Much awkwardness ensued.

I blew out a breath, took a couple steps back, and flopped in one of the battered chairs that line the wall, trying, with my casual pose, to defuse the situation. "Adam, I don't have a sense to be afraid of Sam in the state he's in now. I don't know why you think I'd be smart enough to be afraid of you.

But helping new wolves through this kind of situation had been one of Samuel's jobs in the pack I'd grown up in.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.