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“Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”
S. I. Hayakawa
“The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.”
George Soros
“In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.”
Charles Baudelaire
“If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.”
Bill Watterson
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.”
Colin Powell
“I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire”
David Lloyd George
“Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.”
Brian Molko
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.”
Martha Washington
