A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Grand Hopeless Hopeless Situations Life Make Only Opera Real Real Life Situations Worse

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Kurt Vonnegut
American - Writer
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

Andy Andrews

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe Luce

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

Josh Lanyon

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Charles Nelson Reilly

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

Robert Anton Wilson

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Lance Reddick

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

Andris Nelsons

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

Chip Ingram

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Robert McKee

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Zig Ziglar

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Lee Gutkind

It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.