Situations Quotes

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.
Dean Norris

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Writing, Thinking, Others

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
Chris Kattan

Good, Able, Characters

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
Rosalind Wiseman

Best, Teacher, Parents

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
Robert Cormier

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Life, Good, True

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.
Jon Hamm

Life, Yourself, Try

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.
Brendan Coyle

Success, Stupid, Become

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.
Jim Walton

Put, Dangerous, Iraq

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.
Jerry Rice

Success, Game, Football

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello

Nothing, Words, Him

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
Alan Furst

Heroic, Crucial

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
Bootsy Collins

Hope, Trying, Working

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
Bootsy Collins

Time, Keep, Front

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
Brian Bosworth

Hope, Regret, Image

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
Madeleine Peyroux

Friends, Guitar, Talk

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.
Ava DuVernay

Truth, Create, Chronicle

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.
John Thune

Happen, Managing, Paying

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.
Kristin Bauer van Straten

Movies, Put, Watch

I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
Veronica Roth

Age, Powerful, True

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.
Danny Masterson

Time, Important, Integrity

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
Jane Haddam

Character, Start, Books

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
Pat Metheny

Time, Amazing, Around

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.
Daniel Greenberg

Children, Play, Young

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.
Eric Stonestreet

Music, Through, Helping

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
Sharron Angle

Faith, God, Christian

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.
Colm Meaney

Laugh, Rather, Comedy

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.
Franka Potente

Emotional, Person, Actor

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.
Bill Dixon

Different, Remember, Imagine

We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
Aloe Blacc

Power, Society, Mind

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