happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events. — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Everything is different circumstances, but the dignity of transness is that we get to be different individuals, have different stories, and connect… — Lux Pascal Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
“IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.” — Nadia Sahari Copy Share Image
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us. — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine… — Chuck Pagano Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people. In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given… — Seth Copy Share Image
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and we… — Gregor Strasser Copy Share Image
