#situation

I think situations are more important than plot and character. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #i see #impure #neither #other

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#empires #especially #fates #i #i can

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#any #bugs #come #doing #i

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#emotionally #everybody #fantasy #humour #i

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#always #into #negative #situation #turn

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over. ↗

— Peter King

#better #between #bureaucracy #class #come

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#certain #condition #double #face #human

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#because #better #championships #crisis #epitome