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Quotes About Circumstances

Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.
~ Kent Brantly
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
~ Nancy Werlin
Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.
~ Loretta Napoleoni
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.
~ Adoniram Judson
The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Doing what comes naturally was (and is) no longer the appropriate response in many circumstances that arose in what had become an unnatural environment. It became the major social role of religion to bridge the gap between a human nature developed for one environment and the altered environment in which that nature now had to operate. People had to be persuaded to act unnaturally, as Jesus and other religious prophets would preach.
~ Robert S. McElvaine
For our benefit, God often allows us to experience circumstances that will enable us to recognize our blind adherence to Satan's deceptions. Many times these circumstances seem very negative, but through them we can learn valuable, life-changing truths.
~ Robert S. McGee
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Four types of holidays may be distinguished: fixed (stativae), movable (conceptivae), for special circumstances (imperativae) as well as market days (nundinae), which occurred every ninth day to mark a kind of week, their periodicity being thus fixed
~ Robert Turcan
The psychotic patient has beliefs that require little information to confirm them and are indeed very difficult to refute logically. They are appropriate only in the sense that they once did apply to the parents' behavior. These misconceptions cause overdramatic and totally inappropriate responses to present-day circumstances and interfere with an individual's ability to adapt. In
~ Robert W. Firestone
If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.
~ Robert Walser
When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things.
~ Robin Hobb
I know you think it slatternly, the way I am with men. But once you have been forced, it is … different. Ever after. I say to myself, well, I know that it can happen to me at any time. So this way, at least I decide with whom and when. There will never be children for me, and hence there will never be a permanent man. So why should not I take my pick of what I can have?
~ Robin Hobb
When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things. When the weight of the world is behind them, the push of events and time itself will align to make incredible things happen.
~ Robin Hobb
If men are now afraid in daily circumstances, why then the situation must be taken seriously, attention must be paid. This also is patriarchal democracy.
~ Robin Morgan
Yes, there what we would consider 'emergent circumstances.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Totally different outcomes; we've made totally different choices in our lives. Like I said, how you were raised is part of the big picture. It's one important factor in a million. But in the end, it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them.
~ Lisa Unger
We don't always choose what happens to us. But we choose what we do with it.
~ Lisa Unger
We don't choose where we come from, Marshall. And we often have little to say about what happens to us. But the adult understands that he and he alone is responsible for his life. You have choices now, choices that will affect your future.
~ Lisa Unger
though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?
~ Lorrie Moore
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
~ Lou Holtz
Circumstances had tended to weed out many of those who might cause problems, but being human, there would be differences of opinion, for the ideal situation may exist but not ideal people. Wise I might not be, but I was wise enough to know that I myself would make mistakes. I was subject to anger, to sorrow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I do not think to discouragement.
~ Louis L'Amour
the very idea of taking a risk that was not demanded by circumstances was repugnant to him.
~ Louis L'Amour