#situation

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

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#executed #exertions #government #greater #had

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#any #anybody #because #been #day

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#future #how #i #into #often

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#allowed #get #here #lunch #movie

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#every #every day #fall #i #love

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#books #element #happens #i #into

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#dogma #foreign #foreign policy #gives #how

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#bad situation #end #end of the world #i #learn

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#bad #bad situation #biggest #come #even