Quotes About Circumstances

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job. The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.

It was just eye-opening: to see how much your geography could determine the opportunities available to you.

The passage of time allowed for him and everyone else to see that the blame that had been assigned to an individual was more fairly bestowed on a situation.

including those circumstances where social distancing measures, limitations on gatherings or quarantine authority may be an appropriate public health intervention.

What?' 'Wherever there are good people,' he said, 'there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn't want to follow where you're leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream is often thin and dry for a time. People do not show their best sides in such circumstances.

There was certainly much to be said for being at the mercy of the primeval elements, to be swept along by circumstances one could not in any way control, but it was good to return, to feel one's identity expand again, unchecked.

The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

You have to look at your situation, and 'how do I make the best of my situation every single night?' That's what I looked to do.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.

How I pick running backs, I always go off what situation they're in. I look at guys and what they had around them.

I wasn't happy with what was going on around me, even when I was only 9 years old. I wasn't happy with the economic situation we were in.

Whatever my contract situation is, that will be going on in the background.

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Opportunities come in all shapes and sizes but, more importantly, make way for us to make good decisions that have a roll-on effect for others.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.