Best 633 quotes in «circumstances quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

... 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

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

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

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

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.