Quotes About Circumstance

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one's reaction to circumstance.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

Whelan was in the position he was, exactly

Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

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.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

Children cannot help how they are born, they had no choice in it. Choosing to be a fool, though . . .

Because our environmental factors are so often outside of our control, we may think there is not much we can do about them. We feel like victims of circumstance. Puppets of fate. I don't accept that. Fate is the hand of cards we've been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case... In this case, yeah.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

She fascinated me, her contradictions, her secrets, and the girl that sometimes surfaced from beneath her tough soldier exterior, like when she spotted the wish stalks on the bank. The girl who forgot who I was and pressed a wish stalk to my ankle. In another world, another circumstance, I think we might have been friends. Or more.

There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

what's fate to you, opal? she asks. opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not.

They sat waiting while the wounded and lost, the innocent and guilty filed past them, all docketed and ticketed regardless of circumstance by the efficient desk sergeant.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you...

marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person. A game where you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped.

or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person.

The fleeting experience of pleasure is dependent upon circumstance, on a specific location or moment in time. It is unstable by nature, and the sensation it evokes soon becomes neutral or even unpleasant. Likewise, when repeated it may grow insipid or even lead to disgust;

A number of those sections of the old Empire which were most highly developed economically and most favored by natural resources and situation, in particular a majority of the wealthy towns went over to Protestantism in the sixteenth century The results of that circumstance favor the Protestants even today in their strug gle for economic existence.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. —Aristotle, Poetics, XXV

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!