Quotes About Circumstance

Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

The ragman is fate, but you bring him to pass. There's never a rag, but you make it, alas!

One of the results of this has been that American culture increasingly defined those who served as "heroic," a term derived from the act of service rather than any specific circumstance or performance during that service.

We do not suffer by accident.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;

The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other...

One's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it's hard to explain sometimes. There's a randomness to the way things kind of happen and get done. And sometimes you have this perfect storm, and you have to accept that and do the best you can.

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We are fallen dreamers, who dream of better worlds than the one in which we live. But the dreams we envision are often more about our own agenda than they are about our Lord's. Though we may not be aware of it, we are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord. The change he is working on is not the change we dream about. We dream about change in it—a person or circumstance—but God is working in the midst of it to change us.

If you are a believer, you are in the process of being remade to reflect the character of Jesus himself. And your Lord is employing every circumstance and relationship in your life to accomplish that goal.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

A man who can set out in a cab for a fancy-dress ball and not get there is manifestly a poop of no common order.