It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.
This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.
We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.
It's exciting to, uh, it's very exciting to know that doors have a possibility of opening to certain situations.
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
Other niggas' situations, they are all depressing.
In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language. Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation. A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with.
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ). . . is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action
If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.
One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D. C. , feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
On to the Next Dream became about much more than me facing a challenging situation; it became about how all of us feel when we're thrust unexpectedly into change. It's about how we all hold onto personalized visions of our lives, our city, and our culture, and what we do when reality forces us to confront the impermanence of those visions.