Circumstance Quotes

501 Circumstance quotes by 404 unique authors

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing… — Andrew Solomon
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. — Patrick Duffy
On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if… — Billy Campbell
I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. — Sarah Ferguson
I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight… — Joan Allen
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance. — Grant Bowler
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed, — Jerry Moran
These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound… — Wilford W. Andersen
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic… — Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is… — Chan Ho Park
Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by… — Mary C. Neal
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in… — Gideon Glick
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps… — Mark Twain
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.… — Thomas Carlyle
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. — Arthur Goldberg
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell
A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but… — Bill Gothard
It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to… — Bob Proctor
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to… — Sydney, Lady Morgan
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more… — Thomas Cahill
To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at… — Norman Vincent Peale

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