Quotes About Circumstances

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.

But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

I cried for it. That's how I see life too. I was so interested in the opera that for a while I forgot the circumstances of my crazy life and got lost in the great mournful sounds of Beethoven and the rich Rembrandt tones of his story.

Men lad bevidstheden være klar over at selvom kødet er plaget, er tilværelsens omstændigheder temmelig vidunderlige.

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am