Quotes About Circumstances

We are all victims of our lives. Some of us accept our circumstances better than others. Some rot from the inside out until every word they speak drips with sourness or venom. I suppose that

If only one country adopts conscription it automatically forces the rest of the world to imitate its practice. The "abyss calls to the abyss." The United States has been so forced, against her best tradition, to adopt conscription and so becomes a victim of circumstances. Yet, though the majority dislike conscription, still the majority recognize it as a grim necessity of these times.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

When faced with complex and inexplicable circumstances, a modern police officer will fall back onto one of two basic policing approaches. Option one; call for backup, arrest everyone in the vicinity and sort it out down the nick. Or option two; locate the nearest source of tea, sit everyone down and hope nobody's carrying a concealed weapon

When circumstances required cooperation among the Fed, Treasury, and FDIC, it often fell to me to make the call to her, as it did this time.

Still, given the circumstances and our rapidly shrinking options, it seemed the best solution.

which seemed the right decision given what we knew then.

but I was aware of the "case-by-case" approach and did not object.

Consequently, many viewed the subsequent decision on AIG as an inconsistent reversal, rather than what it was: a different response to different circumstances.

markets didn't have enough examples of Fed behavior in similar circumstances.

cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

Circumstances are quite unimportant, character is everything; in vain we break with outside things or people; we cannot break with ourselves. We change our circumstances, but we take with us into each new situation the torment we had hoped to leave behind, and as we cannot shake ourselves any better by a change of scene, we simply find that we have added remorse to regrets and misdeeds to sufferings.

Las circunstancias significan poca cosa,el carácter en cambio lo es todo;en vano rompemos con las cosas y los seres ajenos; no podemos romper con nosotros mismos. Cambiamos la situación, pero arrastramos con nosotros el tormento del que esperábamos librarnos; y como nadie puede corregirse simplemente desplazándose, uno se encuentra con que no ha hecho otra cosa que añadir remordimientos a las penas y pecados a los sufrimientos.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by the occasion.

My business was now continually augmenting, and my circumstances growing daily easier, my newspaper having become very profitable, as being for a time almost the only one in this and the neighbouring provinces. I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Wir können nicht unsere Hand dafür ins Feuer legen, wie wir unter bestimmten extremen Umständen reagieren. Seither bin ich Moralisten gegenüber sehr empfindlich.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.