Quotes About Circumstances

But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them recognizable.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

IHAD MET Sherlock Holmes at a time when adolescence and the devastating circumstances of my orphaning had left me with an exterior toughness and an interior that was malleable to the personality of anyone willing to listen to me and take me seriously.

while all of this was going on, a man's face, a slight caricature of the artist as a young voyeur, loomed in a window over the bed and leered down at the two girls. The caption read, "What do they know about love uptown?" That's an old and not very funny joke, and if you don't already know it you're not going to read it here, because it's a bore. But it does fit the circumstances well enough.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be.

And because circumstances rarely match, and one afternoon can be a patchwork of both joy and horror, the taste of the soup washed through me

Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.

We are chaotic chemical propositions, in dire need of basic principles that we can adhere to during our brief rational spells. We should feel grateful for, and protected by, the knowledge that our external circumstances are often out of line with what we feel; it is a sign that we are probably on the right course.

Rabih is not marrying—and therefore fixing forever—a feeling. He is marrying a person with whom, under a very particular, privileged, and fugitive set of circumstances, he has been fortunate enough to have a feeling.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

A yajaman is one who does not blame anyone for any situation. He knows that his fortune and misfortune are dependent on many forces. Besides his knowledge, skills, experience and his power of anticipation, a lot depends on the talent of people around him—the market conditions and regulatory environment. He simply takes charge of whatever situation he is in, focusing on what he can do, never letting the anxiety of failure pull him back, or the confidence of success make him smug.

You give them too much dignity,' said Lakshman as he lit the pyre. 'It is the only way to remind ourselves that we are still humans,' said Ram. 'Let the forest and its fears not claim you. Stay true to the idea of dharma. Be the best you can be, in the worst of circumstances, even when no one is watching.

Rules always change in times of war and in times of peace, as they do in times of fortune and misfortune.

Events are events. Humans qualify them as good or bad.

I'd married a near stranger because I felt like I had no choice. When you're young, you have more choices than you'll ever again have in your life, yet sometimes you can't see them. I'd truly been blind.

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

His career is irrelevant. He can change if he chooses. We'll support him in whatever he chooses. He wraps himself too much in the emotion of his circumstances to see what is plainly before his face.