Quotes About Circumstances

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

Delia ya no estaría. Los objetos tienen una vida asombrosa en esas circunstancias.

No pudo dejar de sonreír. Hasta el cinismo podía llegar a ser simpático en ciertas circunstancias.

One may do anything; this alone corresponds to the whole breadth life has. But one must be sure not to take it upon oneself out of op-position, out of spite toward hindering circumstances, or, with others in mind, out of some kind of ambition.

When our days are shadowed and leached of meaning, when circumstances shower us with mud, how can we be sure to re-emit lessons we absorb in the sunlight?

Christians must act according to their state in life, respecting and glorifying God in all circumstances. Though what may constitute indecent, immodest, or improper decorum at one time or place may not necessarily be so at another.

I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

Why would you lock yourself in a situation that may not make you happy? I think that's highly inefficient.

Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

Injuries are part of the game for everybody. You have to manage those circumstances as best you can.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

I would not restart, under any circumstances, an interrogation program at CIA.

The things done, the victories gained over circumstances by St. Bernard or St. Joan of Arc, by St. Catherine of Siena, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Teresa, George Fox, are hardly to be explained unless these great spirits had indeed a closer, more intimate, more bracing contact than their fellows with that Life "which is the light of men.

Once means happenstance, twice means coincidence, three times means enemy action.

Las personas nunca cambian; cambian las circunstancias. Y esa variación es la que modifica las relaciones entre las personas.

Las personas nunca cambian; cambian las circunstancias. Y esa variación es la que modifica las relaciones entre las personas. Las

Créeme, las circunstancias nunca suelen ser favorables. No hay que depender de ellas. Lo importante es lo que uno siente, lo que uno quiere, lo que uno sabe. Tenemos que vivir a pesar de la realidad e incluso contra ella, sin esperar a que nos sea propicia como hacne los ilusos, o los cobardes.

La gente era más pobre entonces y carecía de las comodidades, las diversiones y los conocimientos que tenemos hoy en día; y a pesar de todo, eran más felices. Lo que parece sugerir que la felicidad depende en mayor medida del estado de la mente —y quizás del cuerpo— que de las circunstancias y eventos que nos rodean.