Circumstances Quotes

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

If I've got any small role in this matter, it's to say to Scots Americans: under no circumstances make Donald Trump President of the United States of America.

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.