Situations Quotes
1428 Situations quotes by 1124 unique authors
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
— Amy Winehouse
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at…
— Lalu Prasad Yadav
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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is…
— Ravi Zacharias
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You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will…
— Ravi Zacharias
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
— Zig Ziglar
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There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them…
— Neill Blomkamp
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice…
— Aldous Huxley
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In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful,…
— Otto von Bismarck
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
— Gavin de Becker
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In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
— Oscar Levant
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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But…
— Anne Lamott
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The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that…
— Tom Robbins
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human…
— Iris Murdoch
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Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to…
— Pema Chodron
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...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.
— Zlata Filipović
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All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time…
— Billy Joel
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I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone.…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations…
— Daniel Handler
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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
— Fred Rogers
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