Circumstances Quotes

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. — Robert Louis Stevenson
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life. — Charles Caldwell Ryrie
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.… — Ian Kershaw
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of… — Thomas Jefferson
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its… — Eudora Welty
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… — Mark Twain
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change. — Susan Polgar
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and… — Mortimer Collins
The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any… — Pope Pius XII
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are… — Ujjwal Nikam
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts… — Faxian
We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done… — Charles Dickens
Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you. — Brian Tracy
We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face. — Roger Crawford
Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred… — Greg Benson
...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an… — Milton Friedman
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other… — Pope John Paul II
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. — Oswald Chambers
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun… — Alex Kozinski
The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an… — William E. Rees

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