Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

I agree with God’s Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

I don't believe that France is capable of reform - at least not in normal times. Fortunately, we are experiencing exceptional circumstances at the moment. It is a moment in which everything is possible.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

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

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.