When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit…

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.”

— Tim Chester

“All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

— Anne Ortlund

“Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices.”

— Lisa Schroeder

Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and…

— David Cannadine

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

— Bob Goff

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense…

— Salman Khurshid

We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We…

— Russell Banks

In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside…

— James Franco

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of…

— C. Wright Mills