Circumstances Quotes

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.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

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.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

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.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

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.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

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

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.