In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a… — Werner Erhard 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
In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life. — Gladys Mitchell Copy Share Image
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals,… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
NEVER BE UPSET IF YOU SEE YOUR EX WITH SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE YOUR PARENTS TAUGHT YOU TO GIVE YOUR USED TOYS TO… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The successful human being is adaptable. We have to adapt to changes in weather. We have to adapt to changes in climate.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or… — Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi Copy Share Image
I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others.… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. Engaging in… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of spiritual people. Now, when I say spiritual people, I not only work with priests, rabbis, and… — John Zaffis Copy Share Image
The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given… — Jan Hunt Copy Share Image
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical...… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
