Circumstances Quotes · Page 152

Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of…

— Joel Osteen

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

— Myrtle Reed

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their…

— Gil Fronsdal

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

— Bruce Lee

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances…

— Jorge Luis Borges

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For…

— John Dewey

Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the…

— James O'Shaughnessy

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the…

— Barack Obama

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she…

— Karen Abbott

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing…

— Daisaku Ikeda

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have…

— Arthur Goldberg

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part…

— Ernst Haeckel

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

— Stu Jackson

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and…

— Edmund Burke

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life…

— Steven Yeun

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a…

— Beatrice Lillie

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I…

— Tracy Letts

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

— Darryl Anka

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

— Val Kilmer

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done…

— Fay Weldon

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

— John Bolton