Circumstances Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

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.

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

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.