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Quotes having the keyword Situation
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
by Jeanette Winterson (Novelist, British , born in 1959) keywords: always, books, element, happens, into, rogue, see, situation, stable, then , throw I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
by Norman Wisdom (Comedian, English , born in 1915) keywords: always, because, comedy, difficult, doing, forward, get, idea, ideas, listen, myself, own, put, situation , their I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
by Frederick Wiseman (Director, American , born in 1930) keywords: characters, discover, myself, novelist, novels, prefer, read, situation, tells, think , where 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.
by James Wolfe (Soldier, British , born in 1727) keywords: believe, blood, bought, cheerfully, conquer, conquest, could, country, devoted, die, difference, friends, general, his, impossibility, life, long, makes, men, most, resign, resolved, retreat, situation, which, would , your I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.
by Lee Ann Womack (Musician, American , born in 1966) keywords: bad, end, learn, learned, lesson, middle, overwhelming, seems, situation, something, then, whatever , world The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon.
by Ahmed Yassin (Activist, Palestinian , born in 1937) keywords: cannot, cooperation, different, factions, hizbullah, lebanon, military, other, palestinian, situation , territories There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different.
by Ahmed Yassin (Activist, Palestinian , born in 1937) keywords: because, cooperation, different, every, exists, field, greater, least, more, now, opportunities, perhaps, political, situation , than It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
by Boris Yeltsin (Statesman, Russian , born in 1931) keywords: critical, deprived, encourage, especially, every, fresh, gold, important, indeed, moments, more, must, new, own, precious, right, situation, such, than, their, think, thinking, thought, thoughts, unorthodox , word Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
by Francis Parker Yockey (Writer, American , born in 1917) keywords: against, always, any, contained, enemy, hatred, internal, non-political, political, public, shows, situation, some, thinking, up, weakness , worked If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
by Thom Yorke (Musician, English , born in 1968) keywords: before, begun, bring, burning, darkness, go, got, happened, history, into, our, point, read, records, situation, some, start, then, where , whole I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
by Muhammad Yunus (Economist , born in 1940) keywords: box, country, dying, economist, famine, felt, fix, had, helpless, hunger, kind, severe, situation, suffering, teaching, tool, universities, very, were , while Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
by Clara Zetkin (Politician, German , born in 1970) keywords: arm, classes, each, economical, energy, fought, improving, increases, political, proletarian, proves, reform, situation, struggle, therefore, which , workers For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
by Clara Zetkin (Politician, German , born in 1970) keywords: burdened, capitalism, chains, class, crush, emancipate, labour, lighten, reforms, situation, sufficient, their, tyranny, weight, workers , working 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.
by Clara Zetkin (Politician, German , born in 1970) keywords: created, current, disastrous, employing, ends, factor, fighting, imperialism, institutions, liberation, most, own, phenomenon, powers, proletariat, situation, vanguard, war, weapons , which 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.
by Philip Zimbardo (Psychologist, American , born in 1933) keywords: act, behave, demean, easily, heroes, motives, noble, others, out, power, resist, situation, somehow, those , ways What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
by Philip Zimbardo (Psychologist, American , born in 1933) keywords: does, dominate, evil, good, happens, history, into, morality, past, place, put, situation, their , triumph
