Circumstances Quotes
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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie -
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
Bryan Adams -
I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein -
Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
P. J. O'Rourke -
One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
Vladimir Lenin -
Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
Oswald Chambers -
A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
Sophocles
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
Oswald Chambers -
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Bentley Little -
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Klemens von Metternich -
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.
Chogyam Trungpa -
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
Carolyn Hax -
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
Jonathan Tropper
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This is something that is extremely hard, ... You don't like doing this. I don't. Sometimes you don't chart the circumstances or what happens - it just happens. Certainly it wasn't the plan I had going in, but sometimes plans change, and I think you do the best you can in dealing with it.
Joe Gibbs -
Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
F. B. Meyer -
I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
Malcolm McDowell -
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate in many privations and disappointments.
Norm MacDonald -
In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
Oswald Chambers -
However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
Kandyse McClure
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
Oswald Chambers -
A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
Carly Fiorina -
You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
Foster Friess -
I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
Jack Straw