Top 1200 Hopeless Situations Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

The more you and the organization can help take care of personal situations, the smoother the ship runs on the football end.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

That is my position, really: staying out wide and, most of the time, going into one v. one situations, which I am good at.

The video ref should focus on the key things, situations ahead of goals, penalties and red cards.

I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

There are many examples of female leaders who are not afraid to take responsibility and openly face the challenges in the worst situations.

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

It?s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.

NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

We've been given the full spectrum of emotions for good reason, and it helps us be happy, in my opinion. I think it's totally normal to be sad or angry or frustrated, hopeless at moments. I don't think we would've been given these things if they were bad.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

Those situations are weird. You're in a room, and I knew they already loved this guy [for the role], so you're like, "OK, this is a different dynamic."

The method in which 'Vadachennai' is narrated gives a feeling as if you are travelling with the characters to the different eras where the various situations happen.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.