Walter Bonatti Quotes

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

Walter Bonatti

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• I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kind
  • Situation
  • Just

• When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Father
  • Blue
  • Born

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Situation
  • Most
  • Zombie

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Situation

• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Born
  • Situation
  • Being

• The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Best
  • Trust
  • Situation

• Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Advice
  • Situation
  • Boss

• There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Situation

• I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Born
  • Situation

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Science
  • Result

• The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Power
  • Free
  • Situation

• Situation very serious... Those ordered to rescue the Führer are keeping silent... Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere... Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.

  

  Martin Bormann
  • Serious
  • Situation
  • Disloyalty

• If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• [Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • World
  • Science
  • Technology

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Conditions

• I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Community
  • Running
  • Confidence

• A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Writing
  • Facts
  • Remarkable

• He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Growth
  • Clearest

• If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

  

  Walter Bonatti
  • Situation
  • Conditions
  • Extremes