Situation Quotes

• No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.

  

  Mike Quade
  • Environment
  • Winning
  • Matter

• In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Night
  • Cities
  • Cooks

• Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.

  

  Wayne White
  • Situation
  • Emotion
  • Embarrassing

• If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Believe
  • Unhappy
  • Unhappiness

• We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Taken
  • Path
  • Immigration

• We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Situation
  • Race
  • Opposites

• Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.

  

  Tony Evans
  • God
  • Rest
  • Fix

• The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.

  

  Walter Millis
  • Character
  • Fighting
  • Losing

• I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Teach
  • Teaching
  • Students

• I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • People
  • Done
  • Hurt

• Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Peaceful
  • Violent

• God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Adversity

• You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Situation
  • Improve
  • Running Away

• Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Natural
  • Social
  • Comfortable

• There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.

  

  Allard K. Lowenstein
  • Goal
  • Situation
  • Realities

• I probably shouldn't have said Monday, but everyone finds out anyway. .... In fairness to him, it probably doesn't need to be me coming out and saying that. In the end, that's the situation, and it's better than all the rumors being around about it.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Monday
  • Rumors
  • Finds Out

• I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Perfect
  • Outcomes
  • Absolutes

• NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

  

  Caryl Churchill
  • Feelings
  • Guts
  • Buyers

• This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

  

  Canvass White
  • Purpose
  • Engineering
  • Cement

• Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.

  

  Billy Wagner
  • Situation
  • Growing Up

• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  

  William Borah
  • Support
  • Sometimes
  • Humans

• In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • History
  • President
  • Situation

• My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Insecurity
  • Enormous
  • Entering

• The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Feels
  • Acting
  • Actors

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