top of page
.png){kind=small}
Circumstance Quotes
"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
8
"I am I plus my circumstances."
5
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit."
4
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
1
"I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance."
"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."
"In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid."
"The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago."
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
"McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance."
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic."
"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
"It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first."
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
"The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
"I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
"I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances."
"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."
"They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable."
"Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team."
"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
"Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her."
"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
"I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me."
"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."
bottom of page