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Quotes About Circumstances

Some people, under certain circumstances, hide their true emotions under exaggeration and hyperbole, not realizing their amplified caricature reveals the exact measure of the feelings it was meant to conceal.
~ Unknown
Do you know you can learn from pain?' But, he explains, the circumstances must be right. To learn, you must have a future:
~ Hilary Mantel
Once the queen's head is severed, he walks away. A sharp pang of appetite reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast, or perhaps an early dinner. The morning's circumstances are new and there are no rules to guide us. The witnesses, who have knelt for the passing of the soul, stand up and put on their hats. Under the hats, their faces are stunned.
~ Hilary Mantel
he feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these circumstances are extreme...
~ Hilary Mantel
como le dijo una vez el rey con tristeza, sólo los hombres y mujeres muy pobres tienen libertad para elegir a quién amar.
~ Hilary Mantel
Because I'm afraid of what may happen to you. You have no duty to me. We found ourselves—no, we put ourselves—on opposite sides. I never expected, I never dreamed, that our friendship could last so long with circumstances as they are.
~ Hilary Mantel
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.
~ Hillary Clinton
She was the product of her circumstances, of her time and place...
~ Hilma Wolitzer
A cura está ligada ao tempo e, às vezes, também, às circunstâncias.
~ Unknown
He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Do you know what makes people love one another? Well, no one else does, either. But scientists study it, and there's all this bizarre stuff about pheromones and facial symmetry and the circumstances under which you first met. People are weird. Our bodies are weird. Maybe I can't help being attracted to her the same way flies can't help being attracted to carnivorous plants.
~ Holly Black
Being in the infirmary when you'd gotten injured being awesome was totally different from being in the Infirmary for doing something dumb.
~ Holly Black
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.
~ Honore de Balzac
There are no priinciples, there are only events. There is no good and bad, ther are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were princiles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man cannot be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.
~ Honore de Balzac
Strong in the experience of her twenty years, she blamed fate, because, not knowing that the mainspring of happiness is in ourselves, she demanded it of the circumstances of life.
~ Honore de Balzac
Il n'y a pas de livres en ce monde que chacun devrait lire, il n'y a que des livres qu'une personne devrait lire à un certain moment, dans un certain endroit, dans des circonstances données et à une certaine époque de sa vie. Je crois que la lecture, comme le mariage, est déterminée par le destin.
~ Lin Yutang
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
~ Unknown
At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.
~ Linda Dillow
When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we're going to judge God by the circumstances we don't understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.
~ Linda Dillow
Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.
~ Linda Dillow
It's our "helping God out" that leads to an anxious heart. When we take over and try to control what happens, we take our focus off the One who is in control and put our eyes on our circumstances.
~ Linda Dillow
Contentment comes from a proper relationship to God, not from a response to the circumstances. Our
~ Linda Dillow
Could it be there are storms in our lives where our perspective may not match God's? Even when it's impossible to see our circumstances from God's point of view, we can still trust him with anything and everything. And because we trust him, we can praise him no matter what. So, praise him even in your darkest hour, because someday, whether on this side of heaven or the other, we will see what God was doing all along. So why wait? Use your faith and
~ Unknown
decision to overrule Roe's essential holding under the existing circumstances would address error, if error there was, at the cost of both profound and unnecessary damage to the Court's legitimacy, and to the Nation's commitment to the rule of law. It is therefore imperative to adhere to the essence of Roe's original decision, and we do so today.
~ Unknown