Quotes About Circumstance

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist?

My name's Tally Youngblood," she said. "Sorry to disturb you, but this is a special circumstance.

I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives.

An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.

Youth is a circumstance that time corrects, and error teaches us to err again along a different vector.

The system would remain in place even if the Democratic Party attained a majority; and should that circumstance arise, the system will set tight limits to unwelcome changes, as is foreshadowed in the timidity of current Democratic proposals for reform.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.

As he got to know her better, he learned more of her childhood; and he came to realize that it was typical of that of most girls of her time and circumstance. She was educated upon the premise that she would be protected from the gross events that life might thrust in her way, and upon the premise that she had no other duty than to be a graceful and accomplished accessory to that protection, since she belonged to a social and economic class to which protection was an almost sacred obligation.

In his experience, people who attributed their success to luck often had a lot to do with making their own luck.

Those whom the fates don't lead they finally drag

An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

Beggars should be no choosers.

For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.

Let me stand to the main chance.

The Queen's voice had dropped, softened. Carel recognized it: the voice of the woman, not the Queen, unheard in seven years. In another circumstance, she might have found it beautiful.

Ah, medals," put in Monty disparagingly. "Medals are given to men who happen to be in the right place at the right time, that is all.

You are living for the deeper truth hidden in the pain of circumstance—your soul's lessons packed in your chimidunchik.

Cada uno es su propia suerte