Situation Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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

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• I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Dangerous Situations, Sheep

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• It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Acceptance, Expectations, Requirements

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• 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

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• The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, Reputation

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• Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

  Shana Alexander

  Children, Kids, Parent

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• 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

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• 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

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• I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, People, Language Barriers

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.

  Eli Manning

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  "The Mannings On Fatherhood". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Real, Lying, Drinking

  "Angelina Jolie Gets Conservative in The Good Shepherd". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 18, 2006.

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• For some reason, talking is easy for me. Practice does make perfect; I've been doing it for a while. Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out. It's very organic.

  CM Punk

  Talking, Practice, Perfect

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Gone, Snapshots

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• I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

  Bill Russell

  Regret, Mean, Starting Over

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

  David Lynch

  Situations In Life, Self, Wife

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• 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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• The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system.  Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.

  Margaret Halsey

  Real, Race, White

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• To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.

  Roger Ailes

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.106, Crown Business

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• I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Jobs, Stress, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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