Quotes About Situations

He'd [Cork] delivered tragic news before. It had been part of the job, but he'd never become immune to he effect tragedy had on those who had to hear of it, and he'd never become used to his own feeling of helplessness in those situations.

Training focuses on simulations. Coaching lives in the real world with real situations.

So far I have proposed that bureaucratic procedures, which have an uncanny ability to make even the smartest people act like idiots, are not so much forms of stupidity in themselves, as they are ways of managing situations already stupid because of the effects of structural violence.

Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

God never said that we wouldn't have unfair situations, that we wouldn't experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.

Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

Always along the way we have been able to meet the challenge of unfamiliar situations with confidence and the wise and patient guidance of parents and teachers,

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codified overreactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again. They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual.

There *are* no problems. Only situations - to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the 'isness' of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with.

The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations.