Circumstances Quotes
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
Atifete Jahjaga
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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.
Ian MacKaye
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A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
Sophocles
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
Bryan Adams
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There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.
William Halsey
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
Oswald Chambers
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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
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
Carly Fiorina
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
William Osler
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I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.
Muhammad Ali
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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.
Javan
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Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.
Marvin J. Ashton
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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
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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Klemens von Metternich
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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.
Plutarch
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
Oswald Chambers
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
Foster Friess
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
Malcolm McDowell
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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
F. B. Meyer
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I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.
William Powell