Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth. — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt… — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Catching myself in the moment. Then I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances. Whenever I can catch myself having… — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
