Circumstance Quotes
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Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
Harry Frankfurt
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I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.
Peter Yarrow
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If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
John Stuart Mill
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In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.
Haruki Murakami
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Happiness is a choice—a choice to be joyful, no matter what the circumstance.
Sadie Robertson
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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
Jane Austen
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Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
Marianne Williamson
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I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
George Chakiris
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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.
Lewis Carroll
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One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
Elizabeth Aston
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I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.
Brett Dennen
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I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.
Marianne Williamson
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Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.
Edgar Allan Poe
