Quotes About Circumstances

Never judge, Kalina's mother always said – treat everyone with compassion. Because only circumstances separated the fortunate from the downtrodden, those who made the right choices and those who chose the wrong path.

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

I haven't necessarily joined politics to become a leader but because it was the need of the time.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Yeah, it's true we're all dealt a set of cards. But it's also true that it's up to us to figure out how to play the hand.

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

While we have minimal control over the events that befall us, we have the final say over how we regard and react to them.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it's a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective. "The Nature of Art" December 19, 1954

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no truck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. A particular stretch of water might have an average wave height of ten metres, but if you were hit by a one-off thirty-metre monster that statistically didn't exist, the average would be of precious little comfort: you would die.

Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Christian, you are that because of where and when you were born. If you are an atheist, you are that because of a book or two you read, or who your parents were and the century in which you were born. Don't delude yourself: there are no good reasons for anything, just circumstances.

if two closely related species act the same under similar circumstances, the mental processes behind their behavior are likely the same, too. The alternative would be to postulate that, in the short time since they diverged, both species evolved different ways of generating the same behavior.

Politics consists more in profiting from favorable circumstances than preparing them in advance.

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

Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity. That

You can't have it both ways. You can't be powerless and totally at fault. Which is it?" I thought about that. "It's neither." "Right," FM said. "Some things are under your control, and others aren't. You do the best you can with what you have to work with. And that is what sets you apart—what you do with it.

Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity.

Who had time for morals in a world like this?

Participants described happiness as an emotion that's connected to circumstances, and they described joy as a spiritual way of engaging with the world that's connected to practicing gratitude.

Evolutionary theory suggests that we should embrace all of our emotions, as each has an important role to play under the right circumstances.