Circumstance Quotes

501 Circumstance quotes by 404 unique authors

Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw… — Jodi Picoult
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. — Edward Gorey
Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and… — Jeffrey R. Holland
There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a… — Alison Goodman
But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for… — Jonathan Franzen
No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are. — Russell Simmons
Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some… — Robin Hobb
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the… — Jesse Ball
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance… — Richard Paul Evans
I’m not as good as a man as you are, Sundown. I find it hard to give an enemy my back under any circumstance.” –… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy… — Ellen Hopkins
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to… — Mary E. Pearson
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance… — Leo Tolstoy
I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. — Marcus Aurelius
Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt… — H. Rider Haggard
Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance — Chris Colfer
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another… — Giacomo Casanova
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that… — Francis Chan
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can… — Tara Brach

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