Quotes about circumstance

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“Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances."
Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?”

“No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.”

“Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works 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.”

“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.”

“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.”

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”

“There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.”

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”

“He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”

“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”

“The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.”

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”

“How we live our lives does not, unfortunately depend on us alone. Circumstances, good or bad, constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.”

“For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.”

“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”

“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

“Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”

“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

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

“Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”

“He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.”

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”

“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..”

“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.”

“What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?”

“understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.”

“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”

“And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”

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

“I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

“Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you…”

“None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.”

“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”

“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”

“It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.”

“And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.”

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes….”

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement… To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

“they walked with a pedatory grace…. one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance"….”

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”

“When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

“Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”

“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”

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

“If I cling to circumstances I could feel
not responsible. Only she who says
she did not choose, is the loser in the end.”

“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”

“Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder…”

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”

“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”

“It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one’s life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”

“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”

“Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.”

“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.”

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

“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”

“There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.”

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

“No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.”

“No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!”

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!”

“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”

“One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.”

“Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.”

“The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”

“If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.”

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.”

“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

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

“I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”

“We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.”

“Contentment… has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.”

“But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.”

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive”

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.”

“More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.”

“I just do the best I can under the circumstances.”

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

“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”

“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.”

“That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.”

“Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

“In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away… past, present, and future together.”

“One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.”

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.”