Quotes About Circumstance

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live and it's phenomenally powerful.

Je l'ai tué, dit Angel. - Non, dit Petitjean. Vous l'avez poussé et il est mort en arrivant sur les cailloux. C'est un hasard.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

We can't always have our druthers.

some people have more opportunity because they're born with it…

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

Hero.' I've always struggled with that word. I'm just a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Steve Bartman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Sometimes, there are spots that need to be filled and you just have to be at the right spot at the right time or the wrong spot and the wrong time.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Everybody has to be somewhere!

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.

What constitutes a gain or a loss depends on the representation of the problem and on the context in which it arises

I was a circumstance, Hannah, that's all. Good or bad - and I assure you that I remain extremely and appallingly bad - there are many angels because there were once many gods, pushing, pulling, hiding, guiding. Once we get through the fog and find a place that feels comfortable we look back and call their influence fate, and the destination our destiny. That's all.

Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual circumstance is discovered to be an established fact, they will usually accept it without rancor or judgment as part of the normal order of things.

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to it.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react.

You can't always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it.

We most of us seem to live according to circumstance, But with people like him, there's something inside them That accounts for what happens to them.