Quotes of: Bad-situation Keyword

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Wally Lamb

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

Wesley Snipes

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Yoko Ono

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

Mike Birbiglia

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Salman Rushdie

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

Natalie Dormer

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Dougray Scott

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Doug Larson

If it is good then the deed is more important than the intention; if it's bad then the intention is worse than the deed.

Spanish

When a physical illness or other adverse circumstance arises, humans tend to add to the problem by worrying and increasing the mental anxiety in their situation. Let’s take illness as an example. We have to face the fact that life is not always per...

Fearless Puppy on American Road

Seven Rules Formulated for Teaching Arithmetic: 1) Consider the situation the pupils faces. 2) Consider the response you wish to connect with. 3) Form the bond; do not expect it to come by miracle. 4) Other things being equal, form no bond that will ...

The Psychology of Arithmetic

I don’t know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialist, if only as an afterthought, he must have realized that he was saying too: No one here will ever look at you, read a word you write, or consider y...

Samuel R. Delany

Appreciation involves being alert to the positive aspects of the current situation and feeling thankful for what one has and for one's circumstances. This requires not only a positive perspective in the present but also conscious awareness of feature...

Sandra L. Schneider

Maj. Duncan Heyward: Might I inquire after the situation sir, given that I've seen the French engineering from the ridge above. Colonel Munro: The situation is that his guns are bigger than mine and he has more of them. We keep our heads down while h...

The Last of the Mohicans

Miles Raymond: Okay, so what's the plan? Jack: Uh... the plan is... you go. Miles Raymond: ME? Jack: 'Cause of my ankle. Still hurts. Just go explain the situation, Miles. Miles Raymond: [laughs uproariously] Miles Raymond: Explain the situation? Yes...

Sideways

I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35 per cent bad—that's a very good guy. The average d...

On God: An Uncommon Conversation

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

Danish

With a good son-in-law you gain a son, with a bad one you lose your daughter, too.

Hebrew

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provi...

The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way i...

The Goldfinch

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay...

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