Quotes About Circumstances

It was just her luck to be in the worst possible circumstances when she met the hottest man in the entire world.

Is he all right?" His voice was very soft, but commanding all the same. Mikhail was authoritative no matter the circumstances.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

no one thinks of himself as a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

No one thinks of himself as a villain, and few make decisions that they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it, because even in the worst of circumstances, he belives that it was the best option available to him at the time. On it's own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well. -Oromis (Eldest)

There are forces circling us that we aren't aware of. Sometimes I wonder if we can ever understand the true motives of the people around us. They all seemed to have secrets. It is the way of the world. Ignore all the schemes and trust in the nature of each person.

Sometimes it's not possible to stay home, even if you want to.

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

I refer to these circumstances with minuteness because I did General McCook injustice in my article in the Century, though not to the extent one would suppose from the public press. I am not willing to do any one an injustice, and if convinced that I have done one, I am always willing to make the fullest admission.]

El ingenuo dominico dice que también él ha pedido el permiso y se lo han negado. «Pero tú, ¿cómo lo has pedido?», le pregunta el jesuita. Y el dominico: «¿Puedo fumar mientras rezo?». Era obvio que le contestaran que no. En cambio, el jesuita preguntó «¿Puedo rezar mientras fumo?», y los superiores le dijeron que se podía rezar en cualquier circunstancia.

The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence.

Without always knowing what we were doing we were constantly adjusting to the arbitrariness by which we were surrounded.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

Remember, your company is a living organism that needs to survive in an environment that's always changing. To thrive, it has to be able to adapt. Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying points for evil.

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind

He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, Examine the road over which the fault has passed.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

La vita diventa complicata, le circostanze ci separano, le decisioni determinano il nostro destino. Ma il tuo cuore ti mostrerà sempre la direzione.