Circumstances Quotes - Page 23

• I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

  Loretta Young

  Teenage, Thinking, Different

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• 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 the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Good Friend, Imagination, Mind

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1808). “The wild Irish girl: a national tale”, p.58

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• We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

  Richard Davidson

  Happiness, Different, Needs

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• Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.

  Rob Reiner

  Children, Needs, May

  "Senate panel rates entertainment ratings". www.cnn.com. July 25, 2001.

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• If through faith you have placed your eternal destiny in the loving hands of Jesus Christ, you can be sure that God is at work, shaping the events and circumstances of your life into a beautiful mosaic that will reveal His Son to the men and women around you. His hand is on you, as it has been since before you were born.

  Chuck Smith

  Beautiful, Jesus, Son

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• There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

  Alan Redpath

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

  Dee Hock

  Dream, Determination, People

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.214, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

  Lord Acton

  Age, Moral, Constant

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• When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Fall, Life Is Good, Lasts

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• I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Artist, Parent

  Alan Bennett (2016). “A Private Function”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Self, Games

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• We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Heart, Weather, People

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.30, Baker Books

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• It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

  Watchman Nee

  Opportunity, Discipline, Suffering

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• I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.

  Judi Dench

  Design, Theatre, Want

  "Judi Dench Press Conference at the 2004 Taormina BNL Filmfest". www.filmscouts.com. 2004.

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• Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

  John Herschel

  Book, Reading, World

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do

  Paul Meyer

  Determination, Persistence, Thinking

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• Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

  Herodotus

  Men, Chance

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 49, c. 440 BC.

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• No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Attitude, Greatness, Men

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• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Sleep, Men

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .

  James Agee

  Track, Insanity, Mind

  James Agee (1969). “Agee on film: Reviews and comments”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

  Wally Amos

  Graduation, Goal, Want

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• I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War, Law

  "Crimes Against Humanity Benjamin Ferencz Interview". Interview with Katy Clark, ratical.org. September 19, 2001.

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• It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Sorrow, Tasks

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.169, Book Tree

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• The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  Choosing Optimism When Pessimism Would Be Easier" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2009.

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