Quotes About Circumstance

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

A real man makes his own luck.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

This one simple change—seeking and finding peace within—could, were it undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace. There is no other formula necessary, or possible. World peace is a personal thing! What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain.

When brutality is the only option left, it is holy.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them on anything other than a case-by-case basis.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

An event is just an event. How you respond to the event determines its outcome in your life.

It is interesting to note that the response to me in Swedish press held no ridicule or personal animosity. The Swedes indicated their affection and acceptance of me on the basis that I was a human being first and, second, a scientific marvel instead of an oddity. It was probably the first time that the press had not taken it upon itself to decide what I was--a circumstance that had prevailed from the time the first story broke.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Ser-se canhoto é circunstância digna de inveja

The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.

But fate is part chance and part choice,

Life gets complicated. Circumstance tears us apart. Decisions guide our fate. But your heart will always show you true north.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

Alas. I am not an option.