You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height… — James Allen Copy Share Image
When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've been told by many people that a lot of overseas players come into the Premier League, and they take time to… — Naby Keita Copy Share Image
Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit… — Hamza Yusuf 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
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If you want to be strong and at peace, be YOU. Be the real you that no circumstance, no judgment, and no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances. — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under… — George Boole Copy Share Image
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives. — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed,… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
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