The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I believe that as people will look at me, they'll see a person who has dealt with a number of very difficult… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby to vote against us staying in the… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Life Is So Complicated A Game That The Devices Of Skill Are Liable To Be Defeated At Every Turn By Air-Blown Chances,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter. — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last. — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And,… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
It's not how well you're able to make a movie. It's how well you're able to make a movie under the circumstances. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
If You Can Manage Your Own Life And Have The Complete Power Over What You Wish To Achieve, You Can Actually Reduce… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The happiest people do not live with a certain set of circumstances, but rather with a certain set of attitudes — Suman Rai Copy Share Image