Quotes About Circumstances

Your thoughts will then "become" the things, circumstances, and events of your life. As pointed out earlier, they don't do this spontaneously—that would completely shatter and nullify the physical laws that otherwise keep things working orderly—but gradually. Slowly. Progressively. Mostly in concert with the physical laws.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

In the midst of my spleen and my yearnings for the past, and despite these ridiculous cramped circumstances I find myself in, in this vile room in this foul apartment-block, I sometimes experience, as at this moment, bursts of confidence and strength. And I become aware of the thought darting up in me that it is true, I am immeasurably more powerful a writer than any of those I know. But in conditions such as the ones I have presently to endure I may have to kowtow to them.

We have no choice of what color we are born or who our parents are or whether we are rich or poor. What we do have is some choice of what to do with our lives once we are here

We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here

When she was a girl, she'd believed that she could work harder than anyone under any circumstances, but she no longer felt that way. Lately, Yangjin felt tired and impatient; small things bothered her. Aging was supposed to make you more patient, but in her case, she felt angrier.

Such is the case with unseasonable rain. It is supposed to be hot summer, yet it is a day like midwinter. What is there to do but to accept it? Following cycles does not mean that you can then expect things to occur with precision and regularity. The actual ways that circumstances develop will always remain beyond complete regimentation. Nature doesn't act according to human theories. Rather, our sciences are imperfect at analyzing nature.

When coupled with economic circumstances that are precarious or deteriorating, that predisposition to equate change with threat becomes doubly potent.

You always feel someone must be to blame when you are cold or miserable or frightened…It may not be so at all – it is just the weather of life – but even if they are to blame…does it matter?

Your circumstances are an opportunity for you to draw near to God and for God to reveal Himself to you through those circumstances in a greater way than He ever has before.

Great chefs always have to wait for orders. They adapt to all circumstances.

Poverty is never a choice. And if it's a choice, then people choose it unknowingly.

Some put work first, while others put their family first. The two have different opinions, but all are correct, depending on the current situation.

Trusting God when the miracle does not come, when the urgent prayer gets no answer, when there is only darkness—this is the kind of faith God values perhaps most of all. This is the kind of faith that can be developed and displayed only in the midst of difficult circumstances. This is the kind of faith that cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.

Lord, sometimes the possibility of coming catastrophe can make our family terribly afraid. We're tempted to ask you only to protect us from difficulty, but what we really want is to be a family who lives by faith in the midst of the worst of circumstances

Ah, my dear," Aunt Jane smiles kindly, "the problem with that, you see, is that no one is ever the murdering sort until they are.

This is the deck of cards you've been dealt. Now you have to deal with it.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they are ungrateful; more often the benefactor rates his favors higher than their worth; and often too he does not allow for circumstances. If few men have the moral force to resist impulses, most men do carry within themselves the germs of virtues as well as of vices, of heroism as well as of cowardice. Such is human nature — education and circumstances do the rest.

Geography is fate.