Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

... 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

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

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.