Quotes About Circumstance

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy. Don't use bullets. Use meteorites Don't commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy. -Guy McMaster

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy. Don't use bullets. Use meteorites. Don't commit a homicide. Commit a tragedy. -Guy McMaster

No "right," however natural it may seem, can exist unqualified in society. A man may have a right to self-defense; therefore, he may have a right to a sword; but if he is mad or wicked, and intends to do his neighbors harm, every dictate of prudence will tell us to disarm him. Rights have no being independent of circumstance and expediency.

Fight fair, fight dirty, don't fight at all, do whatever it takes to achieve and accomplish justice in any situation, any circumstance, but remember never use more force than necessary.

Evet, hep tesadüf... Onun s?rt?na giyece?i yoktu ve mal sahibi seksen kat üst üste giyebilirdi. Bu tesadüftü... Fakat, e?er mal sahibi bunlara ayda yirmi?er lira fazla verse, -bunu yapmak onu hiç de sarsmazd?- o zaman bunlar?n da birer kat, iki?er kat elbiseleri, çama??rlar? olur ve -tesadüf- böyle olmazd?... Tesadüfün bu kadar kolay de?i?ebilece?i hiç de akl?na gelmemi?ti.

When you were just born, it did not take immediate effect. It was waiting. As the process of growth happens, it looks for the right kind of situation and takes effect.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present circumstance, to behave to men who are present with you according to right and to handle skillfully the present impression, that nothing you have not mastered may cross the threshold of the mind.

We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!