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Letter "S" » situations
«There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night»
Author: Ernest Bramah
| Keywords:
antagonist, antagonists, bag, despised, precipice, precipices, promptly, resolved, situations, thrusting
«When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
situations, suggest, The characters
«There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.»
Author: Russell Hoban
| Keywords:
over and over, physically, relive, relives, reliving, response, satisfactory, situations, unresolved
«Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.»
Author: Serena Williams
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
Champions, decided, helped, nervous, situations, tight, Venus
«When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.»
Author: Shakti Gawain
| Keywords:
attract, basically, conform, conformed, conforms, conform to, create, envision, envisioned, envisioning, events, expectations, expecting, form, pleasure, positive, positive thinking, satisfaction, satisfactions, situations, Something Positive
«There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.»
«Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
participation, situations, wrest, wrested
«We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.»
«To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell»
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