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Quotes About Circumstances

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.
~ Robert Winston
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
~ Elihu Root
It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.
~ Townsend Harris
One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car when they are feeling optimistic about their financial circumstances.
~ Kevin Hassett
This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.
~ Jack Abramoff
Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities.
~ Debasish Mridha
When you realize that emotions aren't truth and they are simply reactions to life circumstances, they can no longer hold you captive.
~ Diamante Lavendar
Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.
~ Wendy Blight
The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.
~ Evan Grinde, Chasing Oblivion
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.
~ Sterling W Sill
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Remember Anger is energy to solve a problem. It often signals that there has been an infringement of our essential nature. Fear is a signal that there has been some change in circumstances that directly affects our survival. Sadness is letting go of something. Joy is the natural response to healthy functioning of our living selves.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
What is more accurate is that unconscious gating defaults act in concert with environmental and cognitive demands and the needs of the cerebral cortex and thus are continually in flux depending on circumstances and environmental inputs.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
The goal of the cobbler, Jughashvili continued, without mentioning his father, Beso, by name, was to accumulate capital and reopen his own business. But eventually, the "petit-bourgeois" cobbler realized he would never accumulate the capital and was in fact a proletarian. "A change in the consciousness of the cobbler," Jughashvili concluded, "followed a change in his material circumstances.
~ Stephen Kotkin
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
~ Stephen R. Covey
the future is a most marvellous creation. For in it lies all the mystery of raw potentiality-a boundless reservoir of all that could be-formed by the illimitable interactions of conscious human beings with their individual environments, circumstances, and conditions, and in concert with their fellow humans.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering one's self to benevolent external forces.
~ Stephen Richards
The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
~ Stephen Richards
When you begin to entertain the more positive possibilities, hope for the best, plan for the best and expect the best, your eventual attraction of the best possible circumstances is almost guaranteed.
~ Stephen Richards
Your life depends entirely on your reactions to the accountability that you are faced with.
~ Stephen Richards
Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.
~ Stephen Richards
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game. —Randy Pausch
~ Steve Alten
It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
~ Steve Berry