Situation Quotes - Page 24

• How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Kegs, Sometimes

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• People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

  Barbara Deming

  Change, Running, Long

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.

  Rob Bell

  Worst Situation, Long, People

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• If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

  Anita Hill

  Equal Treatment, Special, Discrimination

  Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor

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• It isn't enough to feel the pressure of a situation; you must repent and change your heart...When you cry out to God, let it be the beginning of consistent change in your life.

  Terry Virgo

  Heart, Pressure, Cry

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• I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

  Sue Townsend

  Writing, Needs, Television

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

  Diane Dreher

  Mean, Leader, Challenges

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• Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.

  Brad Warner

  Confidence, Buddhist, Believe

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.46, New World Library

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• choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

  Chris Prentiss

  Happy, Knowing, Benefits

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby

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• You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Racism, Black, Happens

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• even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Witty, Believe, Punishment

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• When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

  Ali Vincent

  Fall, Health, Clothes

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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• You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dark, Light, Secret

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Dark, Compassion

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• I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

  Scott Baio

  Jobs, Children, Wife

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

  Ringo Starr

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

  Barack Obama

  Knowing, Years, Promise

  Democratic debate, Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2007.

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• The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?

  Barack Obama

  People, United States, Ifs

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Forgiving, Rebound

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the government plays less of a role in people's lives, and so they're living in whatever situation their employment imposes upon them more than they're living in a grand political system.

  Will Oldham

  Years, Play, Government

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Powerful, Usa

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• No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

  Gore Vidal

  Reality, Games, People

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.

  Russell Westbrook

  Mom, Fashion, Blessed

  Source: www.gq.com

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