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in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

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

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

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

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

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

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of 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.

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

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

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

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of 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 seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

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

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.

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

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

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

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 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.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

It wasn't really that hard to act when you see somebody holding a gun to your partner. It's also believing the circumstances and I believed it.

I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.