Quotes About Circumstance

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

You can have talent, but unless you're in the right place at the right time, then it isn't going to happen for you.

Sometimes you get the rub of the green, sometimes you don't.

You know if you have driven well or not, but sometimes because of the car or package you simply cannot do any more.

For it was the Englishmen of that day who felt race, thought race, and used the word often and publicly. It was the Englishman who, encountering an Indian or an Egyptian or a Zulu, and observing that he differed, attributed the difference not to circumstance but to blood, not to community or culture but to race.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can't deny an amazing voice. You can't deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it's evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.

If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world, so I was silent.

La realidad no suele coincidir con las previsiones; con lógica perversa, prever un detalle circunstancial es impedir que este suceda

Luego reflexionó que la realidad no suele coincidir con las previsiones; con lógica perversa infirió que prever un detalle circunstancial es impedir que éste suceda.

A quien leyere Si las páginas de este libro consienten algún verso feliz, perdóneme el lector la descortesía de haberlo usurpado yo, previamente. Nuestras nadas poco difieren; es trivial y fortuita la circunstancia de que tú seas el lector de estos ejercicios, y yo su redactor.

Un alma derrotada, torturada por sí misma,que habría podido hacer mucho de haber nacido en una época ó ambiente apropiado.

The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation.

Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.

Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashion don't think you've been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you're saving up your ration.

And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... [F]our dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Holger didn't feel like an orgy, but had no way to refuse.

All is luck or ill luck in this world.

Al final ¿cómo es el asunto? ¿uno va llevando su vida adelante, o la vida se lo lleva por delante a uno?

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.