Quotes About Circumstance

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance, for there is an important distinction between destiny and sheer victimization.

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it's born with us the day that we are born.

For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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.

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

The choices she's made have left her without choice. There's

Tatrini could see why he'd caused so much trouble in his life. She believed that true beauty was essentually fueled by evil. Almorante had loved him, as had Bayard, in his peculiar way, and also Khaster Leckery. Now, it appeared, Valraven Palindrake had been visiting Tayven in captivity. Was this another lovelorn victim? If Bayard possessed half of Tayven's essence, he would be an indomitable force, but that perhaps was not a desirable circumstance.

They are a stuffy lot, and rather too fond of pomp and circumstance.

There's a time and place for everything, and you are surely in the right place at the moment.

I wonder what absurdity of fate had cast each of our souls down in the environment that the other desired.

It isn't the calendar age that determines a man's restlessness. It is daily circumstance, an *awareness* of being hurt, and an inordinate hunger for "another way".

yet underneath it all it's not in conscience another self hidden not in shame because sarcastically been on rushing from its hiding place and taken under its known this tale this proud, this boastful braggart of circumstance and dream that something calls life

You were supposed to stay with her in that moment, with tenacity and honesty. And that's what you did." "I wasn't honest. I lied!" "And you're aware of the lie, and aware of the reason you told it. You were there in that circumstance, Sarah. More then Joelle.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

Love is immune to whatever circumstance.

Families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are merely time and circumstance mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen.