Circumstances Quotes

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

When you get older, you have a much better sense of when it's time to really recognize that you're fortunate and that you should appreciate your circumstances.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

Never say never, dear. You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate

I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

The reality of the world we live in is that people sometimes aren't interested in many circumstances; no matter how much young radicals yell at them, that isn't what they want to do right now.

Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

President Donald Trump has said, he would be honored to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances. What are those circumstances?

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.