Circumstances Quotes
In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.
I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?
Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.
When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect
Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.