Quotes About Circumstances

Ace Bourke, whose ecstatic reunion in Africa, years after Christian's release, is memorialized on film—the unavoidable circumstances of

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

The Proletarian Cultural Revolution, ushered in with so much fanfare and promise for the Chinese masses, had not really changed their lives or given them new opportunities for development. The Chinese people continued to struggle against poverty, shortages, and lack of choice. The Cultural Revolution had merely created a new set of circumstances to which at least the young workers were adjusting with cynicism and audacity.

Gratitude is the intention to count your blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.

Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it's over.

Everyone has their path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.

But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

I hold your life and do not take it." They had begun as gestures of trust rather than of affection, but their meaning had grown. Now, depending on the circumstances, a simple lifting of the head—as she had lifted hers to receive his bite—could mean trust, affection, challenge, or contempt. It was, Tahneh thought bitterly, the perfect gesture for a betrayal.

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

Science now held a position of unique honour among the First Men. This was not so much because it was in this field that the race long ago during its high noon had thought most rigorously, nor because it was through science that men had gained some insight into the nature of the physical world, but rather because the application of scientific principles had revolutionized their material circumstances.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.

Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

It may be true that in any society defective types with low vitality like myself are doomed to perish, not because of what they think or anything else, but because of themselves. I have, however, some slight excuse to offer. I feel the overwhelming pressure of circumstances which make it extremely difficult for me to live.