Circumstances Quotes
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
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In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.
Karen Miller
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The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.
Eugene H. Peterson
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It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent.
Jerry Bridges
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It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
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It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.
Robert Walpole
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I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.
James Cromwell
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Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Circumstances alter faces.
Carolyn Wells
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Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.
William Thoms
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And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
Sarah Palin
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For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
Brandon Mull
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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
Martin Luther
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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.
Thomas More
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I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.
Bob Goff
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
Nat Hentoff
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Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.
Nicole Kidman
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
Stephen Covey
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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
Jonathan Swift
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Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Susan Griffin
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I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.
Emily Barton
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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
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I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
Nicholas Sparks