Quotes About Circumstance

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

God is in control in every circumstance.

What had happened could not be interpreted any other way.

Funny how unlucky events can lead to lucky ones -Emma

Luck, I was starting to realize, comes in many flavors." -Emma

I'd been thinking of luck as 'things I wanted to happen', but luck was also 'preventing things I didn't want to happen'" - Emma

Everything in the world was definitely based only in luck. Some people won Lotto, some people walked down the street and air conditioners fell on their heads, and the rest of the world was somewhere in between. Unfortunately, Joey felt closer to the air conditioner guy than the Lotto guy.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

Not all standards are equally persuasive, of course. Some will seem more directly on point, more widely accepted, or more immediately relevant in terms of time, place, or circumstance.

He wondered seriously if love wasn't a feeling at all but a simple characterless state of shared isolation. If you were alone with a woman your feelings might change from moment to moment but the circumstance of your shared fate did not change. Maybe that's where the love was, in the combined circumstance.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

there is no circumstance, in all the contradictions of our most mysterious nature, that appears to be more humiliating than the use we are disposed to make of those sad examples which seem purposely marked for our correction and improvement.

enlisted among the Moguls, or they were massacred on the spot by the troops, who, with pointed spears and bended bows, had formed a circle round the captive multitude.