Circumstances Quotes - page 2

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them. (William Osler)
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. View quote
David Hume
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. View quote
Epictetus
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. View quote
Iris Chang
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. View quote
Germaine Greer
If evolutionary selection is the basis for a belief in profit maximization, 'then we should postulate that basis itself and not the profit maximization which it implies in certain circumstances. (Tjalling Koopmans)
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. View quote
Henry James
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. View quote
John Foster Dulles
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. View quote
Azar Nafisi
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. View quote
Jack Youngblood
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. View quote
Milton Friedman
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. (Horace)
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. View quote
Mark Twain
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally,who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt