Situation Quotes

4573 Situation quotes by 3032 unique authors

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. — Kurt Vonnegut
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you,… — Rajneesh
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists… — Garrett Hardin
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your… — Rajneesh
When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are deep in awareness,… — Rajneesh
You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically. — Rajneesh
Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is… — Sun Tzu
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is… — Margaret Mead
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it. — John C. Maxwell
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue… — Stephen Covey
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies,… — Pope John Paul II

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