Quotes About Circumstance

In the quiet Rosa came forward and put an arm around her sister. They looked so much alike, and were so different in the way they saw the world. She wondered if Rosa might have been a child more like her sister if circumstance hadn't demanded the impossible of her.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say Well, I won't give her that lump in her breast for another year. Best to let her recover from the death of her mother first. It just goes right on ahead and does whatever it feels like, whenever it feels like it.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Perhaps everyone possessed a darker self kept at bay by circumstance.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." —Anthony Robbins

Mother was not as easily read. Her life since early youth had been a series of roles imposed by circumstance and other people's needs.

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.

It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

This book will remind you that you can't always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.