Quotes About Circumstance

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Il y a des chances qui tombent dans les bras du premier venu qu'elles rencontrent, des putains de chance qui le laissent tomber aussitôt pour aller avec le suivant, et il y a des chances avisées, au contraire, qui guettent une personne et l'éprouvent lentement.

What is luck but something made to run out.

I was born with a ring of luck at my neck. Luck is its own kind of manacle, perhaps.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.

We are the authors of our lives, and, through choice or circumstance, some of us leave our stories unfinished or untold. Though it's taken me a long while to get here, I've come to accept that life, like the vast woodlands that surround my childhood home, is layered with mysteries.

Well, there are a number of lessons to this war. One of the lessons of the war is that when you go into a country that is under a dictatorship, no matter what the underlying makeup of the country is, that it takes an awful long time to be able to help re-establish a circumstance where there's a possibility of a democratic country emerging. And so that's one of the lessons I think everyone has learned.

Sometimes it can be that a player is available and you can get them next month - wow, that's a bolt of lightning - but it doesn't happen that often, it really does vary.

It was the fault of destiny!

But what was making her so unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had overturned her life? And she lifted her head and looked around, as though seeking the cause of what hurt her so.

As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.

It is natural that such a thing as a dead man's scream should give horror, for it is obviously, not a pleasing or ordinary occurrence; but I was used to similar experiences, hence suffered on this occasion only because of a particular circumstance. And

I saw one of his comrades led to execution; he had killed a Frenchman. Many years afterwards this little circumstance occasioned me to write my little poem, The Soldier, which Chamisso translated into German, and which afterwards was included in the illustrated people's books of soldier-songs.

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

Of course I would love to have another track as big as 'Animals,' but 'Animals' became big also because of luck, the timing, and hype.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Given the thin line between success and failure, knowing that what works in one circumstance might be disastrous in another, what do such operations have to teach us? It's certainly not that daring military action is or isn't the better course; it's that daring thinking about one's options is always the better course.

Fatality is doing the right things at the wrong time!!!!

Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but which, while it lasted, was free of the specific problems that bedevil the labor movement today when by force of circumstance it has been separated a few notches farther from the rank and file.