Quotes About Circumstances

All things turn out ill, in the end. But that is the ill nature of things, to end.

Mila ardea în inima lui mocnit ca putregaiul. Nu va sc?pa de ea nicicând. ?tia din experien?? cum se stinge pasiunea È™i cum dispare dragostea, dar mila r?mânea întotdeauna. Nimic nu micÈ™ora vreodat? mila. Împrejur?rile vieÈ›ii o alimentau.

The dependability of the world which makes it possible for rational, morally responsible creatures to live works against us in certain circumstances.

I never stopped writing. It was what I did, no matter where I was or how my circumstances changed. One of the reasons I remember those early Bombay months so well is that, whenever I was alone, I wrote about those new friends and the conversations we shared. And writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

Technology is a tool, and it's a platform. Nobody gets arrested for being a blogger; people get arrested for dissent. Nobody gets arrested for putting information about themselves online; they get arrested for being an activist. I'm a strong believer in the fact that you should not blame the tools; you should blame the circumstances.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

At least it wasn't raining. It started to rain.

Right and wrong depend on where you're standing. Stealing is wrong if you're the one being stolen from, but it's right if you're only alternative is to starve to death. Choice is an easier concept to handle, especially if no one else is affected by your choice. That doesn't often happen, but I still believe we're all entitled to live according to what we want rather then what others do.

Women exercise agency in order to survive the power relations and oppressive circumstances in which they find themselves. The theoretical task, Miriam argues, is for radical feminist theory to 'theorize freedom in terms of women's collective political agency (power to): this task requires an understanding that freedom is not negotiating within a situation taken as inevitable, but rather, a capacity to radically transform and/or determine the situation itself'.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

Time and need compels to trust strangers even for a specific time

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.