Quotes About Circumstances

Beggars can't be choosers.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Have you thought about going insane? It would seem like a reasonable thing to do, given his circumstances. Did once. Got boring, so I snapped out of it.

Without attempting any systematic employment of time, and carrying it out, so far as they control circumstances, most women are rather driven along by the daily occurrence of life; so that, instead of being the intelligent regulators of their own time, they are the mere sport of circumstances.

How else do you think life happen? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow.

Arme Leute können nicht wählerisch sein, oder? Bedeutet das auch, wer wählerisch ist, kann nicht arm sein?

However, Arlene's arrival had kind of wiped out my options. I

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

I feel it is my duty to take every single opportunity I get to advocate for peace, no matter the circumstances of those meetings.

As a former member of the IRA, I accept all the responsibilities that are due to me. But in terms of the individual circumstances, I don't comment on that.

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would've been in Minnesota.

If we want to understand the actions of other people, we have to understand how they interpreted their circumstances and the choices they faced--not the way we would interpret them or, rather, the way we think we would interpret them if we were in their shoes.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Sheer experience had already taught her that in some circumstances there was one thing better than to lead a good life, and that was to be saved from leading any life whatever.

I think success really involves the situations you get yourself into and the people you meet

Zar nije svaki ?ovek po jedna omaška i promašaj? Zar on, ve? kako se rodi, ne dospeva u mu?no zato?enje? Robija! Robija! Okovi i stege na sve strane! Kroz rešetke svoje individualnosti žuri ?ovek beznadno, na kružni zid spoljnih okolnosti, sve dok smrt ne do?e i ne zovne ga nazad u zavi?aj i slobodu...

Therefore each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.

Abstract moral decisions are much easier to make on paper or in a classroom in later centuries than in the midst of the dilemmas actually faced by those living in very different circumstances, including serious dangers.

The community as a whole is better off or worse off according to whether or not the next generation is raised under circumstances that are more likely to produce productive citizens rather than parasites and criminals. Indeed, the less fortunate are the hardest hit by the consequences when social standards are compromise or jettisoned for the sake of cosmic concepts of equality.

The presumption of equal outcomes in the absence of malign actions can lead to incorrect— and disastrous— conclusions in other circumstances.