Quotes About Circumstances

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

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.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.

Many of these children have low aspirational levels, lack those out-of-school experiences which are so richly provided when parents are in more favorable circumstances.…

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

For courage mounteth with occasion.

Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents.Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

There's place and means for every man alive.

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

Hope reflects the state of your soul rather than the circumstances surrounding your days. Praise God and your soul gets stronger.

the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right if their special-interest favoritism is the only favoritism that is fixed. The result...is that nobody is giving up their favoritism. In these circumstances everybody loses...

You were saved because you were the first.You were saved because you were the last.Alone. With others.On the right. On the left.Because it was raining. Because of the shade.Because the day was sunny.

Most people think that their only option is to change their circumstances. But these are not the true causes of their unhappiness. It has more to do with the way they think about their circumstances.

Yes, karma propels us into all kinds of unexpected situations," His Holiness said. "This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.

Enduring happiness was only possible with equanimity. As long as our happiness depended on circumstances, it would be as fleeting and unreliable as the events themselves.

it is not so much the circumstances of our lives that make us happy or unhappy but the way we see them.

This proves that it is not so much the circumstances of our lives that make us happy or unhappy but the way we see them.