Situation Quotes

• What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Situation
  • Learned
  • Determines

• We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.

  

  Mohammad Javad Zarif
  • Trying
  • Common
  • Threat

• Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reality

• There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Changed
  • Currents
  • Albany

• I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Social
  • Quiet
  • Shy

• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Live
  • Future
  • Present

• A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Trying
  • May
  • Girl

• 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
  • People
  • Why
  • United States

• The region is going through a very difficult process and I think it would be better to make constructive statements to see if we can cool down the situation.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Process
  • Statements
  • Region

• It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Situation
  • Regulators
  • Banking System

• People are always asking me for pictures, signing autographs, everywhere I go. Before, it used to irritate me, but I've learned to handle the situation. I cannot run away unless I lock myself in my room and never go out.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Pictures
  • Handle
  • Autographs

• We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Situation

• For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Situation
  • Word
  • Fail

• There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Clock
  • Deadline
  • Bullets

• I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Kings
  • Graves

• I think as citizens, we need to really move forward and we need to take some of the responsibility for it, whether it is simply being more vigilant or by preparing yourself for action if ever you do find yourself in that situation.

  

  Chris Norman Smokie
  • Responsibility
  • Situation
  • Citizens

• On Kosovo, let me be quite clear that NATO will not stand idly by. We will not allow a repeat of the situation of 1991 in Bosnia.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Repeat
  • NATO
  • Kosovo

• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Enough
  • Terrorist
  • Addresses

• If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Abuse

• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Walking
  • Situation
  • Pretending

• We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Terrorists

• Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.

  

  Boi-1da
  • Situation
  • Management
  • Touchy

• When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Business
  • Food
  • Trouble

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