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Quotes About Circumstance

Every moment of your life, every choice and every circumstance, has carved a path to this very moment," Mom said. "You're always exactly where you're meant to be at precisely the perfect time. You can trust that always. When it's dark and when it's light. In those times when you scream at the sky or when you turn your face up to catch the warmth of the sun—you can trust that.
~ Ted Dekker
La suerte es relativa.
~ Julianna Baggott
Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des méchancetés du sort et ses perfidies, préparées de longue main, n'ont cette apparence fortuite que parce que les dessous nous en échappent.
~ Julien Green
What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in the direct relation between the thing and man, while, inversely, its value is realized only in exchange, i.e., in a social process. Who
~ Juliet Schor
Ahora sé que no es así, que Johnny persigue en vez de ser perseguido, que todo lo que le está ocurriendo en la vida son azares del cazador y no del animal acosado.
~ Julio Cortazar
It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.
~ K.J. Parker
A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it
~ Francis Bacon
The best time to finally be and do what you want could be the worst time to be and do what you want. So if now is the worst time for you, this may be your best chance.
~ Franco Santoro
On fortune's cap we are not the very button ...Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates we. SHAKESPEARE
~ Frederic Manning
I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
~ Brandon Boyd
Happiness is tied to circumstance and joyfulness is tied to spirit and gratitude.
~ Brene Brown
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau
At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.
~ Henry David Thoreau
there is no one circumstance in which the distempers of the mind bear a more exact analogy to those which are called bodily, than that aptness which both have to a relapse.
~ Henry Fielding
What is character but the determination of incident?
~ Henry James
There is always a place for chance in things.
~ Henry James
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
~ Henry Miller
Man's character is his fate.
~ Heraclitus
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
~ Roz Savage
How you react to a situation says more about you than you know.
~ Dominic Riccitello
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
~ Quintilian
If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kidness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kidness creates a blessing.
~ Stephen Kendrick
Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.
~ Stephen Richards
While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one's self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.
~ Stephen Richards