I’ve found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like ‘real people.’ – MaryJanice Davidson
The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected. – David Petraeus
V is like a mythical situation. It’s an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening. – David Lloyd
Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. – Floyd Abrams
The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is … in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas. – French Montana
You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation. – Martti Ahtisaari
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts. – Debbie Ford
Every situation I have ever been in I have been trained for, and I dealt with it to the best of my abilities. – Marcus Luttrell
I don’t know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don’t know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room. – Michael Richards
Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL. – Matthew Stafford
Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can’t find jobs. It’s how desperate the job situation is in the United States. – Mario Diaz-Balart
As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It’s not a bad thing; it’s just a fact. – Maria Bartiromo
If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally – and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they’re in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters – then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that. – James Wan
Look, obviously that was – created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information. – Michael Isikoff
We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon. – Matt Mead
If I’m in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can’t. – Jack Whitehall
Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It’s such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what’s clear is that there’s an urgent need for a solution there and that’s been dragging on for so long. – Javier Bardem
If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won’t be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that. – Lynn Good
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. – Joschka Fischer
We’re showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it. – Liam Hemsworth
There’s a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation. – Larry David
You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done. – Keith Miller
The first day of ‘Bling Ring,’ I was so nervous and freaking out. I’m a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn’t predict what would happen. – Katie Chang
Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used. – Jeroen Dijsselbloem
We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can’t solve. – Linda Lingle
Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. – Murray Walker
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. – Jose Eduardo dos Santos
