John Stuart Mill Quotes

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Considered
  • Longer
  • Utah

• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Circumstances
  • Others
  • Tool

• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Attention

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Law
  • Circumstances
  • Rules

• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wise

• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hope
  • Present
  • Teacher

• Given (Scotty's Paving) circumstances, I don't think the Fiscal Court should hold (the company's) feet to the fire.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Fire
  • Circumstances

• Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Rock

• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Career

• I find it regrettable that there are those who are trying to resurrect a filibuster even as there is clearly nothing in the record that constitutes extraordinary circumstances.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Trying
  • Circumstances
  • Resurrection

• God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Language
  • Circumstances

• 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
  • Work
  • Done
  • Christian

• God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Circumstances
  • Account

• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• 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
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Abstract

• With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Thoughts

• If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Genius
  • Circumstances
  • Preparation

• Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Ability
  • Circumstances
  • Response

• Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Drug
  • Arms
  • Holding

• If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.

  

  Mike deGruy
  • Something
  • Breathe
  • Really

• There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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