Circumstance Quotes

• If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

  

  John Drinkwater
  • Value
  • Word
  • Circumstance

• 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
  • Character
  • Creature
  • Architect

• I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Character
  • Success
  • Confident

• 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
  • President
  • Imagine
  • Constitution

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

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Teach

• We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

  

  William Stephenson
  • Circumstance
  • Trained

• 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
  • Design
  • Relation
  • Respond

• As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

  

  Paul Dano
  • Actor
  • Scripts
  • Circumstance

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

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Everything
  • Circumstance
  • Timing

• 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
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Circumstance

• You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Circumstance
  • Gifted
  • Faculties

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