Situation Quotes - page 12

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. (Kim Dae-jung)
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. View quote
Clara Zetkin
We have too large a disparity in the world; we need more inclusiveness... If we continue to have uninclusive growth and we continue with the unemployment situation, particularly youth unemployment, our global society is not sustainable. View quote
Klaus Schwab
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you. View quote
Curtis Sittenfeld
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. View quote
Hans Selye
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. View quote
Atom Egoyan
Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them. View quote
Alberto Salazar
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. View quote
Bo Bennett
Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day. (John G. Bennett)
Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements. View quote
Max Wertheimer
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours. View quote
William Vickrey
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. View quote
William Vickrey
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation. View quote
William Vickrey
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality. View quote
Vint Cerf
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. View quote
James Wolfe
The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry. View quote
Evan Rachel Wood
Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment. View quote
David C. McClelland
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation. View quote
T.D. Jakes
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. (Benjamin Lee Whorf)
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves. View quote
Patricia C. Wrede
There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value. View quote
Patricia C. Wrede
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point. View quote
Elizabeth Peters