Situation Quotes

• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Beautiful
  • Sometimes
  • Form

• If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Kind
  • Games
  • Handle

• We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Ends
  • Response
  • Consequence

• When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  

  Prince William
  • Time
  • Trying
  • She

• The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Ideas
  • Politician
  • Complexity

• Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Situation
  • Eternity
  • Representative

• Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Different
  • Same
  • Levels

• There really aren't any unusual requests. They're humbled by the situation. It's hard to be displaced and ask for what you need.

  

  Andrea Brown
  • Need
  • Situation
  • Requests

• You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

  

  Michelle Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Different
  • Giving

• Seriously,” Shane said, “this kind of is the worst situation we’ve ever been in, right?” “Speak for yourself,” Michael said. “I got myself killed last year. Twice.” “Oh yeah. You’re right—last year really sucked for you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Situation
  • Year
  • Kill

• It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.

  

  Charles Haughey
  • Happening
  • Bizarre
  • Unprecedented

• We've identified the missing link, ... The actual cause of the anthrax which has created this whole situation.

  

  Bob Wright
  • Created
  • Link
  • Identified

• We are very, very, very concerned with the situation.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Situation
  • Concerned

• Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Giving

• The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

  

  Michael Strahan
  • Focus
  • Pressure
  • Handle

• It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

  

  Albert Memmi
  • Situation
  • Relationships
  • Escape

• On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there and it wasnt.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Book
  • Borders
  • Afghanistan

• We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Changed
  • Example
  • Quarters

• We speak in the same voice with the United States because Washington, too, is interested to stop the spiraling of tension and normalizing the situation in the region. It is important not only that we speak in the same voice but that we also act in coordination with one another, which Russia is in favor of

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Important
  • Stop
  • United States

• One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Reason

• You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • World
  • Evil
  • Hands

• Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Ideas
  • Seems
  • Dramatic

• Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Helping
  • Term
  • Competing

• Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Life
  • Economic
  • Track

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