Quotes About Circumstance

When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.

We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place." He

Well, luck is nothing to sneeze at, either; we would not get very far if luck were against us

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.

El destino suele estar a la vuelta de la esquina. Como si fuese un chorizo, una furcia o un vendedor de lotería: sus tres encarnaciones más socorridas. Pero lo que no hace es visitas a domicilio. Hay que ir a por él. -Fermín Romero de Torres.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

El destino suele estar a la vuelta de la esquina. Como si fuese un chorizo, una furcia o un vendedor de lotería: sus tres encarnaciones más socorridas. Pero lo que no hace es visitas a domicilio. Hay que ir a por é

Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they 'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

A végzetünk többnyire az utcasarkon hever. Egy darab kutyaszar, egy lotyó vagy egy lottóárus... a szerencse három leggyakoribb megtestesülési formája. Egy biztos: soha nem megy házhoz. Nekünk kell érte mennünk!

destiny doesn't make house calls

El destino siempre está a la vuelta de la esquina. Y si algún día decide usted ir a por él (porque lo que el destino no hace son visitas a domicilio), ya verá como le concederá una segunda oportunidad.

To me it is the irony of fate," she said. "The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house.

Beggars can't be choosers.

To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry. It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart. Not saying that guys in the NBA don't play for heart, but once you get that money, you're under a different mindset.

Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!

Boldwood, whose unreasoning devotion to Bathsheba could only be characterized as a fond madness which neither time nor circumstance, evil nor good report, could weaken or destroy. This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the hasty conjecture that Troy was drowned. He nourished it fearfully, and almost shunned the contemplation of it in earnest, lest facts should reveal the wildness of the dream. Bathsheba having at last been persuaded

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single, we do.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography.

some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform to a pattern. If the pattern gives licence to cruelty, so much the better. They take advantage of the licence so thoughtlessly, so thoroughly, that it becomes perfectly clear: the generality of mankind are only waiting for the chance, only waiting for outward circumstance to sanction brutality and allow them to be cruel and brutal to their heart's content.

For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America, and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia.

You can live your life out of circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision. WERNER ERHARD