The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh
It’s really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn’t say that or he wouldn’t do that, you know, it’s about the characters, about the story, about the situation. – Walter Hill
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. – Simone de Beauvoir
Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it’s the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is. – Ursus Wehrli
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. – William Vickrey
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation. – William Vickrey
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn’t have that. – William Scranton
We’re in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. – Wallace Shawn
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. – Tana French
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed. – Sylvia Earle
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits – and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. – Simone Weil
I get this thing every once in a while that I call ‘ESS:’ emergency sleep situation. I’ll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can’t move. – Teri Garr
It’s very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places – to kind of look at things through the ‘noble innocents’ prism or through the ‘chronically dysfunctional’ prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. – Tony Abbott
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation. – William P. Leahy
As an actor, one’s role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world. – Satya Bhabha
I usually get freaked out if I’m in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. – Steve Buscemi
Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match. – Vladimir Kramnik
I’ve always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that’s just a knack that I’ve always had. – Tiger Woods
I’m just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation. – Tarvaris Jackson
The most troubling loan we had was actually to the ‘Octomom’. That was a terrible situation, and we worked very, very hard to move her to another home that they could afford. – Steve Mnuchin
It’s difficult because usually when they cast things, the main characters are Caucasian in absolutely almost every situation. – Sandrine Holt
For most developers, that kind of situation – a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn’t intend – to most developers, that’s a bug. For me, that’s a celebration. – Warren Spector