Situation Quotes

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. (Jerry Pournelle)
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. View quote
Paulo Coelho
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. View quote
Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. View quote
Joseph Conrad
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. View quote
Reba McEntire
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). View quote
James Thurber
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. View quote
Margaret Mead
My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, excellent situation, I am attacking. (Ferdinand Foch)
A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable. View quote
Franco Modigliani
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. View quote
George Orwell
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. View quote
Billy Wilder
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. View quote
Brian Tracy
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation. View quote
Jean Kerr
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. View quote
Julius Caesar
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. View quote
Kim Campbell
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. View quote
Colin Powell
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. (John Rawls)
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. View quote
Michael Korda
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change...The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful. View quote
James Lovelock
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. View quote
Richard Pryor
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. View quote
Philip Zimbardo