Situations Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.
Dante Hall

Sometimes, Guy, Advantage

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Sam Rayburn

Good, Try, Wait

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

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick

Reality, Social, Fiction

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
Janet Evanovich

Humor, Through, Sometimes

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
Bruce Cockburn

Fighting, Looking, Pacifist

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter

Good, Try, Wait

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

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
Scott Bakula

Dream, Kid, Fantasy

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.
Kiri Te Kanawa

Beautiful, Regret, Used

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
Geoff Davis

Security, Potential, Iraq

I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.
RJ Mitte

Around, Kids, Times

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

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.
Sarah Wayne Callies

Good, Women, Terrible

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
John R. Allen

Single, Real, Difficult

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
Margaret Haddix

Freedom, Fun, Everything

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

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

Put, Dangerous, Iraq

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 wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.
John Newcombe

Life, Try, Serious

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

Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.
Isabelle Fuhrman

Real, Put, Games

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
Diana Wynne Jones

Off, Joke, Everybody

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

Character, Start, Books

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
E. P. Thompson

Political, Both, Scientist

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