Circumstances Quotes

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.