Situation Quotes - Page 4

• Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Identity, Whole, Smallness

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 03, 2013

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• If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

  Ross Kemp

  Together, Groups, Growing

  "60 SECONDS: Ross Kemp". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. September 17, 2007.

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• The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Overcoming, Way, Faces

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• Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Sports, Sacrifice, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Simple, Race, India

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• Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Wall, Confused, Winning

  Mohnish Pabrai (2011). “The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Eye, Men

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• Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reality, Views, Drawing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.140

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• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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• Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

  Peg Bracken

  Food, Competition, Television

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• nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Truth, Denial, Denying The Truth

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• Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Trust, Men, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Marble Faun”, p.342, Booklassic

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• Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

  Judith Martin

  Mean, Friendly, Social Behavior

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• Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Positive Energy, Negative

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

  Melody Beattie

  Peace, Demand, Matter

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.161, Hazelden Publishing

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• However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

  Sun Tzu

  Mma, Enemy, Despair

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• Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the world. And they have had this all through the centuries and are very much heightened by modern communications. I mean now you have Muslims in the Muslim world who can compare their situations with people elsewhere and they find that very humiliating.

  Bernard Lewis

  Communication, Mean, People

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• If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution

  Pat Parker

  Party, Reading, Home

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• My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

  Idi Amin

  Country, Government, Vices

  Attributed in "Uganda, the Human Rights Situation" by United States Congress. Senate, (p. 13), 1978.

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• Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.

  Bob Proctor

  Blessing, Years, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 19, 2015

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• In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

  George Washington

  Character, Government, Office

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.78

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• [Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

  Kingsley Amis

  Technology, Winning, Class

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• Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

  Jamie Bamber

  Mean, Emotional, Actors

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• Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

  Liya Kebede

  Risk, Care, Way

  "This Mother’s Day" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Football, Games, Nfl

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Ndamukong Suh". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. June 30, 2011.

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