Circumstances Quotes

There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.

Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.

Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Annabeth’s hand slipped into mine. Under different circumstances I would’ve been embarrassed, but here in the dark I was glad to know where she was. It was about the only thing I was sure of.

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in these circumstances that I kind of, am afraid of, that can be a way to toughen me up.

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

The scenes of existence can be modified. One creates his own circumstances.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.