Situation famous quotes
04-24-2025
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
-- Abdallah II -
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
-- Alan Furst -
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
-- Albert Ellis -
The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
-- Alex Van Halen -
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
-- Ally Condie -
I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.
-- Andreas Katsulas -
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
-- Andrew Mellon -
I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
-- Ang Lee -
It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
-- Armand Assante -
Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
-- Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
-- August Wilson -
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.
-- Ava DuVernay -
The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?
-- Barack Obama -
I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.
-- Barack Obama -
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
-- Barry Commoner -
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
-- Ben Okri -
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.
-- Beth Moore -
Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.
-- Beth Moore -
There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.
-- Bill Crawford -
The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.
-- Billy Davies -
But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.
-- Billy Higgins -
Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.
-- Boaz Lavie -
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
-- Bob Dylan -
I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation,
-- Brad Delp -
You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
-- Brad Warner -
In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
-- Bradley Denton -
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
-- Branch Rickey -
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.
-- Brandon Lee -
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
-- Brendan Behan -
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
-- Brendan Coyle -
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
-- Brian Eno -
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
-- Brian Eno -
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
-- Brian Tracy -
Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.
-- Brian Tracy -
I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
-- Bruce Lee -
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
-- Carol S. Dweck -
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
-- Carre Otis -
You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
-- Carrie Fisher -
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
-- Catherine Opie -
I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.
-- Catherine Ponder -
There is no either / or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation.
-- Cathie Black -
You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?
-- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -
Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
-- Chip Ingram -
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
-- Chris Chocola -
God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.
-- Chris Pavone -
Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?
-- Christopher Paolini -
I like situations that push a character to the edge.
-- Claire Cameron -
I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.
-- Clive Palmer -
Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier
-- Colleen Hoover -
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
-- Criss Jami -
Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
-- Curtis LeMay -
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
-- Dalai Lama -
Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
-- Daley Thompson -
A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
-- Danai Gurira -
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
-- Daniel Boone -
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
-- Daniel Craig -
I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
Its always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.
-- Darren Criss -
If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.
-- David -
Every situation has changed me as a person.
-- David Beckham -
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
-- David Coverdale -
PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.
-- David Edward Kirk -
Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.
-- David Gill -
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.
-- David Icke -
I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.
-- David Ortiz -
Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,
-- David Suzuki -
If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.
-- David Tudor -
She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.
-- David Weber -
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
-- Dean Rusk -
No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
-- Deana Carter -
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
-- Deborah Norville -
Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge
-- Debra Searle -
Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.
-- Del Close -
My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation.
-- Demetri Martin -
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
-- Derek Jacobi -
I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
-- Don Baylor -
I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.
-- Don Rickles -
I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
-- Don Rickles -
It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun.
-- Doug Flutie -
I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.
-- Drake -
An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.
-- Dwyane Wade -
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.
-- Eddie Alvarez
