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Situation Quotes

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

Flower Growth Plants Stand Situation

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

Feel Situation Create Want Events

In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.

Electricity You Situation Say Tense

When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.

Work You Situation Try Out Reform

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.

Alexander Osterwalder

Words People Speak You Situation

In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.

Robert Downey, Jr.

People Situation Movies More Seem

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

Youth Not Perfect Perfect Situation

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Mystery You Find Situation Out Lit

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Best People Situation Know Him Up

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

Alexander Dubcek

Situation Improve Market Make Easier

I am most supportive of organizations whose goal is to increase the living situation of those less fortunate than myself.

Rosanna Pansino

Myself I Am Goal Situation Living

I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.

Truth Value People Me Situation Go

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Life History Poetry Me Situation

I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.

Home Story Friends Situation Go Up

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Aleksandar Hemon

Long Situation I Can Write Retreat

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

Situation Presidency Cannot Conduct

I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.

Change Situation Know Never Things

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

Situation Born Being Misfortune Had

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

Me You Be Prepared Situation Need

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.

Work Goals Day Situation Want Clear

I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'

MaryJanice Davidson

People Long Situation I Can Follow

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.

Power Great War Situation Changes

The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

Me Story Situation Wrong Matters

I don't see any situation where Israel will not be sitting on the Golan Heights.

Situation Heights Sitting Will See

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