Circumstances Quotes

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.

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.

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

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

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

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.