Fanny Burney Quotes

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

Fanny Burney

• Situation
• Difficulty
• Too Late

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• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Situation
  • Worst
  • Lead

• It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Story

• 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

• Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Sometimes
  • Situation

• 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

• If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• 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

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

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

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

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

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Situation

• 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

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Able

• I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Nothing

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

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Born
  • Situation
  • Being

• I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Right
  • Situation
  • Now

• At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.

  

  Karl Mannheim
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• We're not looking for Kobe to score 50 or 30 or 80. We're just looking for it to fit together. We want players to blend their talents together.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Together
  • Players
  • Talents

• The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Needs
  • Born
  • Phenomenon

• A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Groups
  • Members
  • Outsiders

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Situation
  • Difficulty
  • Too Late