Quotes About Circumstance

She looked away. You make it like it was the coin. But you're the one. It could have gone either way. The coin didn't have no say. It was just you. Perhaps. But look at it my way. I got here the same way the coin did.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise.

But the old woman said that some have no choice. She said that for the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

People prefer fate to chance.

He was shot in a fracas of some kind. Long fore he married. Come near dyin. So I always wondered about that, had he died none of us would never have been at all and I never could … Well, that's a funny thing to think. Maybe we would have just been somebody else.

if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

when any action in our day-to-day life is motivated by some expectant result, or by what only appears to be a real condition or circumstance in our life, that expectant result is very likely to be dashed to pieces.

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

The law is a flexible thing—on both sides of the line—influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same.

The voice of some absent, or probably some deceased, relative was, in such cases, heard as repeating the party's name. Sometimes the aerial summoner intimated his own death, and at others it was no uncommon circumstance that the person who fancied himself so called, died

Well, it was right in there where I lost him. That traffic circle is where he tore his britches. I never saw him after that. He has no chin, you know." "You told me that." "Captain Hughes of the Rangers used to say that if they ever hanged old Ski they would have to put the rope under his nose.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

If you're not with family on major holidays, people worry, calling to see if you're being sufficiently festive, yelling at you if you eat Chee-tos for phans by circumstance, geography, or choice, but a cultural conspiracy was afoot to make us feel otherwise. Work, I decided, was the antidote.

What is fate but the whine of the low-born?

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

Whatever the circumstance, there are seeds of meaning, even to our very last breath.

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.