Circumstances Quotes
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Given (Scotty's Paving) circumstances, I don't think the Fiscal Court should hold (the company's) feet to the fire.
Wayne Newton
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Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
Natalie Cole
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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
Mike Leigh
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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
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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
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The circumstances you're born into are not your fault, but it's up to you to climb out of it. Find out who you are, what you want to be and go for it.
George W. Jenkins
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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
Oswald Chambers
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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
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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
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A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.
Bill Gothard
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
Paddy Considine
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
Gerda Lerner
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My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.
Elena Ferrante
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Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
Marjorie Holmes
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God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
Bob Goff
