Quotes About Circumstances

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.