Circumstances Quotes

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out?

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there.

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.

When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.

Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances.

The law of attraction says that like attracts like, and when you think and feel what you want to attract on the inside, the law will use people, circumstances and events to magnetize what you want...

When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.