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

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
Jasper Johns

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
Benny Green

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
Frank Knight

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
Russell Hoban

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
George Oppen

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
Jerry Only

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.
Thayer David

There's a handful of situations already in two games - some hits I don't need to take - and I'm taking them because I'm stringing out the play.
Mark Sanchez

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
Jonathan Kellerman

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.
Daryl Gates