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“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

“The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.”

Two Ends Games Situation Equal Average Valuable Queens Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.”

World Feels Ends Culture Church Situation Christianity Seeds Soil Backyards

Book:Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

Source: Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”

War Ends Fighting Situation Weapons Institutions Currents Factors Liberation Phenomenon Imperialism Proletariat Employing Current Situation Vanguard

Author:Clara Zetkin

“Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony.”

Two Ends Helping Reality Sides Situation Fronts Harmony Embrace Helping Others Invisible Visible Two Sides Peace And Harmony Beginnings And Ends

Book:Macrobiotics: The Way of Healing

Source: Macrobiotics: The Way of Healing

“Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.”

Real Ends Enough Situation Circumstances Extremes Abstract The End Of The Day

Author:Boaz Lavie

“Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.”

Believe Ends Situation Havens Normal Protagonists

Author:Paul Schrader

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”

Persons Ends Character Situation Vanity Persuasion Valet

Author:Jane Austen

“It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.”

Said Ends Today Political Causes Term Situation Evolution Consequence Terrorist Examination

Book:Infinite Thought

Source: Infinite Thought

“The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.”

Want Mind Ends Play Happens Able Song Results Situation Knowing Addiction End Results

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

“...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.”

Ifs Knows Stills Ends Matter Body Space Situation Unity Oneness Evolve Satisfying Time And Space Conditioning Liberated

Author:Terence McKenna

“Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.”

Way Ends Play Hands Church Situation Lord Plans Broken Tools Supposed To Be Crush The End Of The Day Kill Me Discarded

Author:Fred Hammond

“I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here.”

Ifs Men Feels Years I Can Ends Opportunity Games Winning Left Sports Challenges Situation Basketball Philadelphia Thoughts On Life Newborn Denver Basketball Game

Author:Allen Iverson

“Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.”

People Knows World Feels Ends Sometimes Love Is Situation Dying Losing Relate End Of The World Good Health Time Love True Love Is Life Or Death Sometimes Love

Author:Lana Del Rey

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

Ends Bigs Games Situation Football Sticks Nfl Coming Out

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.”

Believe Ends Pain I Believe Situation Rights Products Baby Racism Stress Civil Rights Get Better Decent Pregnancy Usual It Gets Better

Book:Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

“I've been in situations where I've been sent scripts to direct, and I always end up becoming very controlling and wanting to rewrite it to fit what I think it should say, and it just usually doesn't work.”

Thinking Should Ends Situation Becoming Fit Direct Scripts

Author:Frank Whaley

“I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.”

People Way Giving Trying Kind I Can Ends Home Might Courses Actors Situation Depth Get Up The End Of The Day Chairs Be Kind Wheelchairs

Author:Jim Beaver

“Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.”

“The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.”

People Trying Ends Problem Situation Being Positive

Author:Jack White

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.”

Ifs Ends Might Guy Fighting Next Sleep Situation Morning Cases Jew Spending Tiny Cells Germany Over You Breakfast Afternoon Every Morning Absolutely Nothing Boxers Ust

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.”

Life Ends Bigs Situation Economic Pressure Track East Regions Daily Life Catastrophe Ukraine Dead Ends Kiev

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.”

“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.”

Trying Humans Ends Jobs Courses Actors Can Do Lines Acting Situation Journey Divine Skills Profound Telling The Truth Maps Screenwriters

Author:Paul Greengrass

“I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Stories Situation Comedy Serving Being Funny

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history, or someone that you're intimidated by, or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.”

Thinking Long Ends School Situation Particular High School Shots The End Of The Day Intimidated

Author:John Krasinski

“On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.”

Kind Mean Ends Home Loss Levels Situation Security Evolution Crisis Structure Response Possession Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Threatening Breaking Down Breakdown Close Relationship

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.”

“If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.”

Ifs Way Ends Situation Lucky Losing Pursue Our Relationship

Author:Woody Allen

“The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]”

Two Ends Pain Past Life Is Chance Situation Teach Karma Ems Cycles Gaps Life Experience Another Chance Life Teaches

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.”

“They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!”

Ifs Men Ends Stories Understanding Situation Knowing Complaining Unhappy Cheating

Author:Eric Williams

“Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.”

Way Ends Literature Games Situation Cutting Get Better Short Cuts

Author:James Altucher

“It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff.”

Ifs Want Ends Running Guy Winning Water Loses Situation Environment Drink Competition Rewards Fighter Coaching The End Of The Day Staff Gatorade Coaching Staff

Author:Urban Meyer

“There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.”

Ends Happens Natural Situation Demand Projects Settling Dead Ends

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.”

Thinking Way Kind Ends Jobs Left Situation Music Is Paid Paychecks

Author:Cass McCombs

“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.”

Ends States Difficult Growth Situation Duty Europe Weak Crisis France Unemployment Mandates Difficult Situations

Author:Francois Hollande

“A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power: Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then 'jobs' become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves.”

Mean Ends Reason Jobs Purpose Jesus Challenges Situation Clear Written Essence Missions Statements Clarity Challenging Situations

Author:Laurie Beth Jones

“Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.”

Thinking Ends Situation Goes On Painful Economist

Author:Paul Krugman

“Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.”

Ends Form Situation Rocks Offers Unique Solutions Seasons Threat Burden Midst Surprising Thick Discovering Refuge Distress Fleeing

Author:Mark Buchanan

“(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Shows Difficult Situation Wall Politician Neighbor Difficult Situations

Author:Frederick Winslow Taylor

“Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.”

Ends Situation Judgment

Author:Darrell Johnson

“When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.”

“We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"”

Thinking Want Should Believe Ends Guy Situation Shame Exception Lions Looking Back Bad Guys Shame On Me

Author:Taylor Swift