Quotes About Circumstances

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government, the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

I know you feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

Don't judge God's love for you on your circumstances, Nathan. Judge it on what you know to be true. God loves you, and He'll give you the strength to do what's right. Just stay the course. That's what God wants for you—everyday faith. Not . . ." John pointed at the wall.

I'm saying that we don't know how God protects us. How he is there for us, but he is. We live our life seeing only our perspective—seeing our circumstances and judging God by what happens to us. But what if we judged God by what didn't happen to us? What if we started asking . . . God, what is your view? What did you protect me from?

we play the cards we've been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.

Who of us know what we would have done had circumstances changed and we had the chance to make different choices? I said I honestly don't know.....

People aren't so bad, really," she said. "It's what the world does to them.

You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.

Por qué me lo cuentas ahora? -Porque no quiero que olvides lo distintas que son nuestras circunstancias. Si mueres y yo vivo, no quedará nada para mí en el Distrito 12. Tú lo eres todo para mí -me dice-. Nunca volvería a ser feliz. [pp. 367]