Situation Quotes

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
Marilyn vos Savant

Able, Neighbors, Exception

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera

Human, Question, Existence

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda

Words, Control, Thoughts

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch

Giving, Excellent, Shall

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.
Robert De Niro

Simple, Feeling, Another

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.
Chris Hemsworth

Dangerous, Might, Ready

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
Usain Bolt

Opinion, Bother

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.
Beyonce Knowles

Love, Human, Control

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck

Anger, Children, Show

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
Eddie Van Halen

Hate, Different, Same

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
Dave Matthews

Feeling, Silence, Control

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison

Life, Lows, Highs

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

Life, Truth, Place

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.
Rashida Jones

Smile, Mean, Grim

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Annie Leibovitz

End, Help, Subject

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.
David Icke

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
David Byrne

Him, America, Around

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

Husband, Might, Bed

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.
Sophia Bush

Love, Time, Happy

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
Martha Plimpton

Living, Working, Making

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Larry David

Life, Sense, Talk

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
Larry David

Time, Best, Mom

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
Julian Assange

Forward, Book, Become

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
Chinua Achebe

Yourself, Far, Once

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye

Stress, After, Older

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael Korda

Mean, Moment, Often

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
Lech Walesa

Future, Nation, Fate

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
Daniel Craig

Life, Point, Stay

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David Attenborough

Hope, Give, Reason

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
King Abdullah II

Crisis, Taking, Advantage

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