Circumstances Quotes
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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.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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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.
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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
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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.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
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Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.
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Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.
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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.
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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.
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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
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As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
