Quotes about Circumstance

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. Votes: 4

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. Votes: 3

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. Votes: 3

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. Votes: 3

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be Votes: 3

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. Votes: 3

When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying. Votes: 3

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain. Votes: 3

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Votes: 1

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself. Votes: 1

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. Votes: 1

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. Votes: 1

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. Votes: 1

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. Votes: 1

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance. Votes: 1

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. Votes: 1

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it. Votes: 1

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. Votes: 1

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. Votes: 1

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Votes: 1

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. Votes: 1

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. Votes: 1

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. Votes: 1

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Votes: 1

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. Votes: 1

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. Votes: 1

There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust. Votes: 1

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. Votes: 1

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom. Votes: 1

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. Votes: 1

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character. Votes: 1

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for. Votes: 1

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen. Votes: 1

Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up. Votes: 1

Adapt to every circumstance. Votes: 0

God controls every circumstance. Votes: 0

A well-trained mind directs circumstance. Votes: 0

You can boldly overcome every circumstance. Votes: 0

Find courage to overcome the circumstance. Votes: 0

I've been a victor of circumstance. Votes: 0

Stop complaining. Be grateful for every circumstance. Votes: 0

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance. Votes: 0

God is in control of every circumstance. Votes: 0

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance. Votes: 0

Every job has a unique situational circumstance. Votes: 0

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance. Votes: 0

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong! Votes: 0

May you find grace to endure every circumstance. Votes: 0

Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance. Votes: 0

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance Votes: 0

Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually. Votes: 0

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies. Votes: 0

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances. Votes: 0

With positive mindset you can graciously overcome any circumstance. Votes: 0

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing Votes: 0

content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ... Votes: 0

We do not have to be victims of circumstance. Votes: 0

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. Votes: 0

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted. Votes: 0

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. Votes: 0

You ought to pray for strength to endure every circumstance. Votes: 0

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance. Votes: 0

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married. Votes: 0

No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it. Votes: 0

The difference between a fear and a circumstance is acceptance Votes: 0

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance. Votes: 0

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance. Votes: 0

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. Votes: 0

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? Votes: 0

May you find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance. Votes: 0

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. Votes: 0

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. Votes: 0

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance. Votes: 0

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. Votes: 0

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. Votes: 0

Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender. Votes: 0

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario. Votes: 0

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them. Votes: 0

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief. Votes: 0

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. Votes: 0

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now? Votes: 0

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. Votes: 0

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes. Votes: 0

Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance. Votes: 0

Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition. Votes: 0

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. Votes: 0

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. Votes: 0

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you. Votes: 0

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. Votes: 0

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful. Votes: 0

success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance. Votes: 0

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. Votes: 0

No matter your circumstance, there is hope, strength, and courage to be found. Votes: 0

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. Votes: 0

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others. Votes: 0

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness. Votes: 0

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God. Votes: 0

That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance. Votes: 0

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. Votes: 0

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. Votes: 0

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. Votes: 0

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. Votes: 0

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Votes: 0

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath! Votes: 0

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad. Votes: 0

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Votes: 0

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. Votes: 0

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. Votes: 0

A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance. Votes: 0

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. Votes: 0

What they did to me does not matter, what matters is I survived the circumstance. Votes: 0

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy. Votes: 0

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. Votes: 0

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought. Votes: 0

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. Votes: 0

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. Votes: 0

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing. Votes: 0

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance. Votes: 0

When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance. Votes: 0

Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money. Votes: 0

With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance. Votes: 0

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. Votes: 0

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance. Votes: 0

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. Votes: 0

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance. Votes: 0

He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle. Votes: 0

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Votes: 0

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth. Votes: 0

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. Votes: 0

A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness. Votes: 0

You can either change yourself or allow the circumstance to change you. The choice is yours. Votes: 0

We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision! Votes: 0

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. Votes: 0

You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit Votes: 0

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Votes: 0

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. Votes: 0

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty Votes: 0

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things. Votes: 0

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. Votes: 0

all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade. Votes: 0

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen. Votes: 0

Whatever circumstance it is, if you always do your best, then you can't beat yourself up, basically. Votes: 0

There is always a solution to any problem.Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become a victim. Votes: 0

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it. Votes: 0

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience. Votes: 0

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen. Votes: 0

I agree with God's Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word. Votes: 0

Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances. Votes: 0

You are not a victim of your circumstance.Stay determine to endure hard times. No situation is permanent. Votes: 0

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. Votes: 0

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance. Votes: 0

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle. Votes: 0

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed. Votes: 0

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself. Votes: 0

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. Votes: 0

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless. Votes: 0

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance Votes: 0

If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray. Votes: 0

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you. Votes: 0

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? Votes: 0

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. Votes: 0

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. Votes: 0

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Votes: 0

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything. Votes: 0

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. Votes: 0

In every given circumstance, only your repeated interpretations of it will determine whether it breaks you or makes you. Votes: 0

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. Votes: 0

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now. Votes: 0

I smile at every circumstance that comes my way because I don't expected life to be an easy journey. Votes: 0

I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood. Votes: 0

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. Votes: 0

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. Votes: 0

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance. Votes: 0

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision. Votes: 0

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed. Votes: 0

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available? Votes: 0

Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate. Votes: 0

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Votes: 0

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. Votes: 0

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed, Votes: 0

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you. Votes: 0

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet. Votes: 0

I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance. Votes: 0

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake. Votes: 0

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance. Votes: 0

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Votes: 0

No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race. Votes: 0

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed. Votes: 0

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity. Votes: 0

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. Votes: 0

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Votes: 0

Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there. Votes: 0

Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way. Votes: 0

Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness? Votes: 0

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. Votes: 0

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph Votes: 0

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance. Votes: 0

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life. Votes: 0

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance. Votes: 0

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. Votes: 0

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. Votes: 0

Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us. Votes: 0

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love. Votes: 0

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance! Votes: 0

When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good. Votes: 0

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance. Votes: 0

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. Votes: 0

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. Votes: 0

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. Votes: 0

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror. Votes: 0

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. Votes: 0

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. Votes: 0

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies. Votes: 0

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance. Votes: 0

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party. Votes: 0

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. Votes: 0

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing. Votes: 0

Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance. Votes: 0

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives. Votes: 0

No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are. Votes: 0

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. Votes: 0

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. Votes: 0

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance. Votes: 0

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life? Votes: 0

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance. Votes: 0

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel." Votes: 0

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance. Votes: 0

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance. Votes: 0

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight. Votes: 0

Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance. Votes: 0

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. Votes: 0

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing! Votes: 0

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. Votes: 0

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. Votes: 0

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power. Votes: 0

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. Votes: 0

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you. Votes: 0

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change. Votes: 0

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets. Votes: 0

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".... Votes: 0

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves. Votes: 0

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course. Votes: 0

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions. Votes: 0

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. Votes: 0

We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living. Votes: 0

Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away. Votes: 0

I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence. Votes: 0

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. Votes: 0

Hope is anchor.No matter the circumstance, there is hope. Hang on to everlasting hope. It will keep your alive through the storms of life. Votes: 0

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government. Votes: 0

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right. Votes: 0

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. Votes: 0

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with. Votes: 0

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. Votes: 0

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives. Votes: 0

Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined. Votes: 0

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us. Votes: 0

You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal. Votes: 0

When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life. Votes: 0

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. Votes: 0

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance. Votes: 0

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know. Votes: 0

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet. Votes: 0

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. Votes: 0

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory. Votes: 0

A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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.. Votes: 0

The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid. Votes: 0

Don't die for the country! Don't die for the love! Don't die for anything! Always choose life! Under every circumstance this is your real duty in life! Votes: 0

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay. Votes: 0

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection. Votes: 0

Don't put your faith in seeing God working during a circumstance. Trust in the fact that when He is done working, you will receive the end results. Votes: 0

From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance. Votes: 0

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being. Votes: 0

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.] Votes: 0

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it. Votes: 0

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head. Votes: 0

Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it. Votes: 0

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all. Votes: 0

It does not matter the circumstance of your birth nor the family your born to.What matters is you are in this world.You can change your destiny. Votes: 0

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess. Votes: 0

There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance. Votes: 0

If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you. Votes: 0

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body. Votes: 0

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic. Votes: 0

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real. Votes: 0

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately. Votes: 0

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. Votes: 0

Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God. Votes: 0

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change. Votes: 0

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance. Votes: 0

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided. Votes: 0

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not. Votes: 0

We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful. Votes: 0

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman. Votes: 0

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them. Votes: 0

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power. Votes: 0

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power. Votes: 0

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. Votes: 0

When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow. Votes: 0

There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different. Votes: 0

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues. Votes: 0

Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices. Votes: 0

Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another. Votes: 0

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance. Votes: 0

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. Votes: 0

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully. Votes: 0

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there's no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream. Votes: 0

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it. Votes: 0

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility. Votes: 0

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do. Votes: 0

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters. Votes: 0

If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kidness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kidness creates a blessing. Votes: 0

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. Votes: 0

You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better. Votes: 0

By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way. Votes: 0

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist. Votes: 0

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table. Votes: 0

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually. Votes: 0

In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important. Votes: 0

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science. Votes: 0

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war. Votes: 0

It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance. Votes: 0

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. Votes: 0

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. Votes: 0

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. Votes: 0

Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance. Votes: 0

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you. Votes: 0

Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education. Votes: 0

There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you. Votes: 0

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls. Votes: 0

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed. Votes: 0

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats." Votes: 0

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. Votes: 0

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. Votes: 0

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place. Votes: 0

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse. Votes: 0

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant. Votes: 0

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food. Votes: 0

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art. Votes: 0

You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours. Votes: 0

A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode. Votes: 0

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work. Votes: 0

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance. Votes: 0

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up. Votes: 0

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. Votes: 0

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands. Votes: 0

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance. Votes: 0

Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. Votes: 0

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon. Votes: 0

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say. Votes: 0

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that. Votes: 0

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends. Votes: 0

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it. Votes: 0

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life. Votes: 0

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. Votes: 0

There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything. Votes: 0

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events. Votes: 0

Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth. Votes: 0

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way. Votes: 0

Positive attitude enables you to go with passion and see possibility in every challenging circumstance. It was by that, that great achievers picked up metal scraps on the floor and saw machines built from it. Votes: 0

My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest. Votes: 0

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. Votes: 0

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe. Votes: 0

Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized. Votes: 0

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening. Votes: 0