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Quotes About Circumstances

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.
~ Mark W. Boyer
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
~ Dave Attell
I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.
~ Max Minghella
The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use - in His own way and for His holy purposes - those who incline their hearts to Him.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We have choices in life when we're young and I think a lot of things were stacked against me.
~ Goldie
If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you'll still have to go on the stage and play 'Charley's Aunt.'
~ Richard Attenborough
Whether I use the long kick all depends on the moment, only at certain stages of the game.
~ Ederson
Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.
~ Matthew Lillard
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
~ Zeljko Ivanek
Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.
~ Janet Reno
Not everyone in this world has the same start in life. From that standpoint, we are trying to give as many kids as we can equal opportunities to succeed.
~ Goran Dragic
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
~ Stephen Bayley
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
~ Croesus
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
~ George Henry Lewes
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
~ Sydney Smith
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
~ Phil Ochs
But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not.
~ Terri Guillemets
When you get to a place in your life where it appears nothing is going in your favor, your circumstances seem hopeless and you have no indication that things will ever change; however, you say with great assurance, "I BELIEVE" then you better get ready, you are speaking the language of God!
~ Terri Savelle Foy
There is a now Word of God for you, a now revelation from the Holy Spirit, that has direct bearing on your circumstances. Praise prepares you to receive this Word, by which God will reveal "the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself" (Eph. 1:9).
~ Terry Law
We are all the product of our thoughts and our feelings, and the circumstances in which destiny unfolds arise because we have called them forth according to our view of the world.
~ Théun Mares
No man can claim that he would have power if his life or circumstances were different.
~ Théun Mares