Quotes: situation
Quotes 1 till 15 of 172.
-
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
-
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
-
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
-
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
-
'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
-
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
-
A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
-
A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
-
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
-
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
-
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
-
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Source: Political Theology (1922) -
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Source: The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970) -
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
