Situation Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like... What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result?

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Mean, Writing, Opportunity

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.96, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Book, Character

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Light, Poetry

  4 Copy quote

• The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Fool

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.135

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Character, Feelings

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.18, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Truth, Denial, Denying The Truth

  13 Copy quote

• Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Disappointment, Ambition, Eye

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.376

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Sympathetic, Concrete

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Humanity, Haughtiness

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Blow, Evil

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.323, Transaction Publishers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Weather, Being Depressed

  13 Copy quote

• Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Fate, Effort

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

  Madame de Stael

  Feelings, Religion, Suits

  10 Copy quote

• Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Destiny, Giving

  30 Copy quote

• [On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Women, Home

  24 Copy quote

• In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Disappointment, Passion, Ambition

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Responsibility, Exercise

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Commitment, Connections

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.34, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Remember

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.

  Darrelle Revis

  Nfl, Care, Sides

  11 Copy quote

• I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Radio, Fast Food

  7 Copy quote