Circumstance Quotes

It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.

Eric Holder
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

Elliot W. Eisner

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

Steven Van Zandt
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Arthur Schopenhauer
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Jonathan Swift
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

Ellen Lupton
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- Relation
- Respond
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

Thomas Carlyle