Circumstances Quotes · Page 73

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

— Ann Voskamp

The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people,…

— Brian Azzarello

Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event…

— William Mountford

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people…

— Arlo Guthrie

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an…

— Ellen Glasgow

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get…

— Oswald Chambers

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under…

— Orison Swett Marden

I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much…

— Joseph Dougherty

Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well,…

— Roger Ebert

Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back…

— Al Siebert

Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

But there's a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we are going to choose to interpret our…

— Laura Story

There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over…

— Ted Cruz

Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is…

— Andrew Solomon

Economics is a good degree to have but the subject is very theoretical at Cambridge and I found it frustrating that you…

— Konnie Huq

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

— Emily Thornberry

Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.

— Doug Pagitt

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance…

— Bob Proctor

No matter what we go through in this world, there will always be new experiences and new day to come.

— Anonymous

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.…

— Bradley Whitford

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I…

— Henry A. Kissinger

But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong…

— M. Russell Ballard

If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.

— Napoleon Hill

An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express…

— Augusto De Luca

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all…

— Jacques Chirac

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In…

— Alfredo Jaar

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

— Napoleon Hill

A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always…

— Dallas Willard

I moved to Humble under really unfortunate circumstances obviously, Hurricane Katrina, so our family was displaced here for four months. Humble was…

— Tyrann Mathieu

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but…

— Richard H. Davis

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than…

— Stephen Covey

My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now…

— Gene Simmons

Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.

— Richard Wurmbrand

The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since…

— John Burroughs

Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job…

— Sheryl Sandberg

If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the…

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism,…

— Sheri Fink