Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.

There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

The world changes - circumstances change, we change - but God's Word never changes

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people. In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.

To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.