Situations Quotes

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.
Jerry Saltz

She, Takes, Turn

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
Gary Numan

Means, Social, Autism

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
Jeff Bridges

Life, Movies, End

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang Lee

Real, Different, Ignore

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
Michael Caine

Home, Feelings, Others

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
Jeff Bridges

Help, Find, Wonderful

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
Shia LaBeouf

Positive, Different, Negative

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
Charlie Kaufman

Friends, Try, Write

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon

Everyone, Action, Changing

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
Loretta Sanchez

Down, Different, Try

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich

Politics, War, Remarkably

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
Brian Eno

Control, Happens, Finding

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters

Friendship, Happiness, True

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?
Ali Larter

Yourself, Down, Through

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
Ralph Fiennes

Unexpected, Within, Process

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
Madeleine Albright

Life, Put, Difficult

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce

Men, Hopeless, Grown

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
Dave Attell

Women, Men, Fire

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.
Guy Fieri

Time, Good, Best

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly

Young, Faithful, Older

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
Heinz Guderian

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Nature, Great, Poetry

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
Jeanette Winterson

Life, Work, Together

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!
Helena Bonham Carter

Wind, Face, Wonder

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Jane Fonda

Good, Begin, Dramatic

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
Herman Cain

Business, Same, Problem

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.
Sienna Miller

Sometimes, Superior, Morally

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Phyllis Bottome

Within, Nor, Neither

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Daryn Kagan

War, Bad, Happen

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
Gijs de Vries

Bad, Human, Find

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