Quotes About Circumstance

Lo único que no está marcado, decía Robert, es qué hará cada persona después de pasar por esa circunstancia.

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.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessita , the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessità, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessità, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?

My loneliness I have borne about with me through the crowd as a snail his house. For some individuals solitude isn't a circumstance they've tumbled into by chance, but a trait, of character.

We don't always have a choice in our fate.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

What they don't get is that if they hadn't chosen their current partner, they would have wound up with the same guy wearing different pants

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

Avevo iniziato a vedere le cose mettendomi dal suo punto di vista, usando la sua positività, e ho scoperto che c'era effettivamente un'altra via per affrontare quella circostanza. Lì ho imparato che se ci sono due modi di vedere una situazione, è sempre meglio scegliere quello ottimistico.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?