Quotes About Circumstances

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

For conservatives, every policy solution starts with an individual picking oneself up, acknowledging his or her mistakes, as a first step to improving his or her circumstances.

Some people, because of their needs, go and become criminals. I have been very fortunate that I wasn't attracted to these kinds of solutions.

There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.

Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.

Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.

Un moment, diu la Mariche, el que voleu dir és que els assaltants són tan víctimes com les víctimes dels assalts? Que tots nosaltres, homes i dones, som víctimes de les circumstàncies a partir de les quals es va crear Molotschna?

Something is always happening somewhere.

Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

Mum always told me that you couldn't know what people would do in a crisis, but I'd thought she just meant you should forgive people for behaving like weasels under bad circumstances, not that a stale biscuit like Khamis might suddenly come over all heroic in a tight corner.

Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought, which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Ambos se preguntaban si habían sido las cartas que les había servido la vida, o si había sido el modo en que las habían jugado.

I tend to believe that the place into which fate decides to drop us doesn't really say much about us. It certainly does not make us better or worse. At best, it just seems to provide a set of circumstances and a hand of cards with which to engage in the poker game of life. We forge our own identity, our worth or shame, as we go, as we play the cards and try to become a fairly decent version of ourselves. The train is the same for us all; we just get on at different stations.

Majoritatea tuturor acestor credinÈ›e pornesc de la un fapt sau de la un personaj a c?rui existen?? istoric? se poate dovedi mai mult sau mai puÈ›in, îns? evolueaz? repede ca miÈ™c?ri sociale subordonate È™i guvernate de circumstanÈ›ele politice, economice È™i sociale ale grupului care le accept?.

La filosofía de normalidad con la que hay que educar implica no dar poder a ninguna circunstancia adversa y no permitir que se convierta en trauma.

God uses whatever is at hand to work His miracles