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Circumstances Quotes by Mark Twain
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular…
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
- All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if…
- ...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of…
- Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any…
- Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
- 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…
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible…
- We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a…
- Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all…
- In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
More Circumstances Quotes
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.… — Neil Armstrong
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or… — Saint Augustine
- A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. — Robert Baden-Powell
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we… — James A. Baldwin
- There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances,… — Christian Bale
- Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. — Dave Barry
- When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
- If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows… — John Berger
- The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It… — Andrew Bernstein
- I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. — Tony Blair