Quotes with situation-

  • Every situation, every moment - is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
  • It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
  • We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.
  • I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.
  • There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
  • Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
  • We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
  • Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
  • We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
  • The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Igor Stravinsky In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Catton Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • David Seabury Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Edward R. Murrow Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
    Edward R. Murrow
    American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1908 - 1965)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • Charles Dickens A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Cavett Robert A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
    Cavett Robert
    American businessman and founder of the National Speakers Association (1907 - 1997)
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  • Alan Cohen Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Carl Schmitt All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • Billy Wilder An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
    The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Joseph Conrad An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Charles Dickens Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Mike Todd Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
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