Quotes About Circumstance

I sit in happy meditation on my rock, pondering, while my line dries again, upon the ways of trout and men. How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook.

I sit in happy mediation on my rock, pondering, while my line dries again, upon the ways of trout and men. How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook. Even so, I think there is some virtue to eagerness, whether its object prove true or false. How utterly dull would be a wholly prudent man, or trout, or world!

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Luck can be bad as well as good,

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Fate will find a way.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

I would've coached Barcelona for free. Well, maybe not for free, but in almost any circumstance.

I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.

One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.

Roman philosopher Seneca who some two thousand years ago said, 'Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The problem with trying to gauge mathematical probability was that it presupposed the circumstance you were observing was governed by chance.

Hence, there is no such thing as an absolute objectivity of attitude. The most rigorously determined attitude of objectivity is, at best, relative. We are human; we are the slaves of our assumptions, of time and circumstance; we are the victims of our passions and illusions; and the most our critics can ask of us is this: Have you taken your passions, your illusions, your time, and your circumstance into account?

Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.

It was a friendship born of propinquity and circumstance, not of true affinity.

They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit: he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze; he will discard it when, and only when, he wills to do so, and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone. It is, as I say, a matter of 'dignity'.

There was another life that i might have had, but i am having this one...

This application of godly wisdom flows down from the heavenly places, and makes for the daily answers to life's situations, to any and every circumstance-it gets the job done! This is loosing Christ out into the streets. The Word must be made flesh, walked out in shoe leather. The Gospel we preach must work in the dirt.

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.