Quotes About Circumstance

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man's circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallises into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.

Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.

But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

I am what time, circumstance, and history have made of me, certainly, but i am also much more than that. So are we all.

we also found comparable amounts of luck in the control set of comparison cases we studied! The big winners did not generally get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better-timed luck than their comparisons. What the best achieved, instead, was a higher return on luck.

while they circle the drain. What else?

I saw crime everywhere. Crime was not isolated incidents destined for ultimate solution and adjudication. Crime was the continual circumstance. It was all day, every day. The ramifications extended to the 12th of Never. This is a policeman's view of crime. I did not know it then.

I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

I am not joking when I state that I remained uneducated because I could not afford education.

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

An effective public-health response requires that those leading the response pivot when new information comes out and change course when unexpected circumstance arise.

One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

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.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?