Circumstances Quotes

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots even request permission to do that.

Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones said.

No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.