Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

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 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'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 pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 (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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

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

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

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

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

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

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

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.

Intelligence is a mere instrument 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.