Circumstances Quotes - Page 14

The scenes of existence can be modified. One creates his own circumstances.

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

You know, circumstances can change, but I'm just not going to let my head go there.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.