The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.
Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.
It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
There's something so awesome about being able to get up in front of a microphone and do exactly what you want. Stand-up is as close as you're ever going to get to being 100 percent in control of a situation artistically, and I don't understand why people wouldn't want to keep doing that.
Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.
Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! PUNISH THEIR CONVERSION!
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.