Quotes About Circumstance

You worked with what you had, you did what you could, and you made choices based on need.

Whatever happens, happens for the better. I was meant to do 'Raabta.' Every film has its destiny, and it's the film that chooses you.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

I'm a big fan of honesty and being real, so to me, it seemed like Wynonna was a very human character in a very supernatural circumstance. I was like, 'I can do that!'

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

Bad things happen because things happen.

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.

We're stuck, all of us, flailing around more or less creatively, washed up more or less conveniently, depending on luck. But stuck nonetheless, epoxied into life and circumstance, and always with limited options. The only question is what we do with those options, how we move forward into the time we have remaining.

melodramatic, I agree, but I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance)

Res ipsa loquitur.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.