Quotes About Circumstance

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

The tree (of Islam) is of artificial planting. Instead of containing within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various requirements of time and clime and circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted some twelve centuries ago.

Some people got lucky, and some people made their own luck.

Do you think luck only lasts so long, and then lets a person down?

Stop that! These words create alliances with the devil. They grant him access to your spirit. It is not God's will that you live a defeated, marginalized, unhappy, and weary life. Turn a deaf ear to the old voices and make new choices. "The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance" (Ps. 16:6). Live out of your inheritance, not your circumstance. God has already promised a victory. And he has provided weapons for the fight.

You can't always choose your situation, but you can always choose your attitude.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

privilege is about context and circumstance

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

And when enough hardship happens within a small circumference, the roads to all the familiar places are little more than crisscrossing scars. By the time every direction you could take at a four-way stop—right, left, straight ahead, or reverse—carries the stomach-turning scent of carnage, moving can mean surviving.

We're too flawed and too challenged by history, circumstance, and chemistry to hoard grace for long.

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.

The distinction is essential. Fault implies a failure or weakness for which a person should be held to account, if not outright blamed. Misfortune is an unhappy circumstance, something bad that has happened to a blameless good person.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

We always learn to be virtuous in a given context; there is no such thing as just learning to be generous or loyal in the abstract.

They climbed up into the carriage and were on their way. Henry caught her bonnet on the doorframe as she was getting in, a circumstance which caused her to mutter most ungraciously under her breath. Dunford thought he heard her say, "Bloody bleeding blooming bonnet," but he couldn't be certain.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing—nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

We are almost all, my good General, of a nature so pitifully plastic, that we act from circumstance, and are fashioned by situation.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

Porque la suerte no depende de ti, sino del azar.

Don't let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.