Quotes About Circumstances

Saber que la vida —dijo muy despacio— es una broma de mal gusto, llena de azares, enemigos y payasos que saltan con su resorte al abrir la caja, es lo único que proporciona temple suficiente para burlarse de todo

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Dideli mes ar maži - vis? m?s? šansai vienodi.

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

We're never pleased when our ratings aren't growing at the rate we would like, but we understand that circumstances will always have us going one way or the other from time to time.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

In life, you can't control what other people are going to do; you can't control how they're going to behave. All you can control is how you're going to react.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

When faced with exceptional circumstances, people react differently.

In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.