Best Situation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.”

Firsts Important Helping Left Situation Management Clean Workers Awful Teamwork Emergencies

Author:Joe Lhota

“I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.”

Feels Emotion Situation Findings Extremes Songwriting Triggers

Author:Laura Marling

“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”

Writing I Can Book Stories Fighting Situation Cases Acceptance Reader Hero Adversity Mail Surviving Can't Change Affirming Snail Personal Stories True Hero Fighting Through

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.”

Humans Term Situation Repetitive

Author:Margaret Mahy

“The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.”

Thinking Way Wells Two Song Process Situation Gone Depends

Author:Michael McKean

“I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.”

Want Behinds Situation Successful Tables Being Successful Introducing Symbolic Fascists

Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.”

Believe Situation Essays Personal Essays Directing Movies

Author:Jodie Foster

“There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.”

People Ifs Situation Balance Findings Opposites Tricks Kicks Make You Happy

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.”

Situation Presidency

Author:Roh Moo-hyun

“Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.”

People Moments Able Situation Magic Cameras Saved Intimate Trusted Observers Realised Intimate Moments

Author:Ryan McGinley

“If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.”

People Ifs Feels Sometimes Social Situation Comfortable Socializing

Author:Tobey Maguire

“Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.”

Years War Sometimes Jobs Guy Situation Four Dangerous Serious Flower Accidents Injury Four Years Explosions Stride Technicians

Author:Vic Morrow

“To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.”

Guy Bits Situation Environment Nice Military Police Males Hard Things Nice Guy Crass Blowhards

Author:Dean Norris

“I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.”

Men Age Situation Hollywood Theater Handsome

Author:John Noble

“Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.”

Different Shows Interesting Situation Roles Creating Interesting Things

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.”

Knows Wells Situation Conversation Gun Female Threat Very Good Handle Agents Behave Los Angeles Fbi Handy Portland Fbi Agents

Author:Connie Nielsen

“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.”

Made Done Situation Careers Taken Records Team

Author:Don Nelson

“I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.”

Running Together Deals Situation Steps Angry Critical Supposed To Be Valleys Private Sector Gasoline Public Sector

Author:Janet Napolitano

“There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.”

Years War Situation Taken Position Couple Civil War Precarious Nicaragua Guatemala El Salvador Honduras

Author:John Negroponte

“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”

Certain Names Situation Power Strength Particular Institutions Structure Complexes Attributes

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.”

People Want Humans Looks May Two Helping Bigs Humanity Human Beings Situation Mirrors

Author:Mira Nair

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”

Years Has Beens Two Jobs Past Situation Millions Effects Taxes Rate Relief Two Years Soar Revenue Deficit Over The Past

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.”

Seems Views Situation Prosperity Productions Point Of View Japan Consumption Asia Expanding New Situations

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.”

Political Certain House Belief Nations White Situation Broken Congress Addresses White House Voters Political Systems

Author:Ron Fournier

“Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.”

Men States Situation Crisis Recognise

Author:Jean Monnet

“In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is being strangled, it is no exaggeration to recognize him as morally guilty, for the great part of his rìle here, still more than elsewhere, has consisted in corrupting, degrading, and disintegrating.”

Ifs Way Stills Whole Political Social Responsibility Situation Economic Jew Guilty Attributes Elsewhere Exaggeration Degrading Algeria

Author:Chuck Hagel

“Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.”

People Knows May Country Use Would Be Suffering Force Answers Situation Plans Middle Seven Jew Oil East Uncomfortable Middle East Seven Days Embargo

Author:George Scratchley Brown

“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”

Knows Want Hard Games Difficult My Own Situation Player Team Hard Work Personality Customers Analysis Scrum

Author:Alan Lewis

“Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.”

Actors Found Difficult Situation Supposed To Be

Author:Barry Levinson

“In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.”

“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.”

Way Giving Feels Situation Band Giving Up Expected I Realized Just Kids

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.”

People Thinking Rooms Situation Auditions Casting

Author:Missi Pyle

“Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.”

People Ifs Looks Ends Situation Crazy Activity Degrees Relate Paranormal Diaries Get Real Mundane Chernobyl Nutty Paranormal Activity

Author:Oren Peli

“I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.”

Believe Opportunity I Believe Situation Plans Don't Believe Happenstance

Author:Ronald Perelman

“If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.”

Ifs Feels Would Be Energy Situation Limits Feels Right

Author:Dana Plato

“I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.”

Feels Kind Persons Actors Situation Emotional Sentences Uncomfortable Sensitive Feels Right

Author:Franka Potente

“Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.”

Want Country Today Situation Path Messages Stronger Our Country Greek

Author:George Papandreou

“I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.”

People Way Difficult Situation Talent Intelligent Guitar My Way Difficult Situations

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.”

Situation Unusual Making A Living

Author:Martha Plimpton

“My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.”

World Persons Facts Situation Responsible Violent

Author:Colin Quinn

“No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.”

Doe Matter Care Winning Stuff Perfect Situation Environment No Matter What Take Care

Author:Mike Quade

“My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.”

Life Is Views Situation

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.”

Littles Church Situation Fields Tradition Complicated Islamic Scholarship Priesthood

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.”

Feels Years Looks Has Beens Done Kids Situation Involved Sorry Soldier Horrific

Author:Gideon Raff

“We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.”

Mean Situation Europe Direct Contact Currency Euro Kosovo

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.”

People Moments Born Deals Situation Dying Rehearsal

Author:Michael J. Fox

“'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.”

Real Reality Social Fiction Situation Organization Real Life Statements Wire

Author:Lance Reddick

“When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.”

People Situation Stress Dynamics People Can Change

Author:Lance Reddick

“Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.”

Situation Economic Difficulty Extremes Repeats Spain

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.”

Knows Want Country Situation Cases Spain

Author:Mariano Rajoy

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