Their Situation Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
— Eric Bana
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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
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Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way…
— Chris Erickson
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Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to…
— Liam Neeson
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Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),…
— John MacLachlan Gray
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Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action
— Brendan Brazier
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled! [People who get upset and worried at the first sign of misfortune are only…
— Daniel Defoe
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Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough…
— George Carlin
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Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They…
— Howard Zinn
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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life…
— Aron Ralston
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Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not…
— Asghar Farhadi
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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
— Jane Austen
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I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're…
— Melinda Gates
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People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldn’t take a risk because of what could happen. While some of…
— Bob Proctor
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I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know.…
— Robert De Niro
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of…
— Eazy-E
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Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and…
— Ali Shariati
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Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away…
— John Ralston Saul
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We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You…
— Samuel Morse
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I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
— Edward Albee
Who Wrote These Their Situation Quotes
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