Quotes About Circumstances

We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, "to prove us and to improve us.

Talking about history is not like living it, I guess. Some people have more choice than others.

And now, in your current circumstances, do you remain loyal to our former sovereign?" "I am alone, monsieur. My loyalty is to Christ, into whose hands I commit my life.

Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a choice. Natalie: No, Jake, that's where you're wrong. Me getting cancer? True enough, I had no choice. How you treat the ones you love? Well, there, you always have a choice.

Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.

Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankinds moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to ones survival and vice versa.

I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

Belief in the existence of God is in the same boat as belief in other minds, the past, and perceptual objects; in each case God has so constructed us that in the right circumstances we form the belief in question.

L'horreur des circonstances exacerbait son orgueil. « Mon nom vaut plus que du chocolat », pensait-elle.

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have.

Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.

I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.

When you do a show eight times a week, you are constantly living in the same world for that whole time, but when you have such drastically different characters and circumstances, you have to find a way to take a moment to reconnect.

The circumstances In which I grew up In Poland were not auspicious for humor.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.