Quotes of: Circumstances Keyword

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Point of Retreat

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Voyager

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Walden

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B. F. Skinner

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

Cameron Mackintosh

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

George Eliot

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Samuel E. Morison

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Sendhil Mullainathan

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

Stephen Rodrick

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Thomas Aquinas

A hallmark of the fluidity of one’s soul is the ability to adapt in a positive way to the circumstances of life.

Tom Hackett

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Toni Morrison

Life is full of unexpected. May God grant us the grace, courage and hope to endure the unexpected circumstances.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Mariella Frostrup

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Marshall Field

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.

Max Minghella

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

Mike McGavick

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Mother Maribel