Circumstances Quotes - Page 30

• For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Country, Enemy, Unemployment

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• Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

  Simon Raven

  Gentleman, Behave, Unreal

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Mean, People, Perspective

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• Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Boring

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• Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Falling In Love, Buddhism

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• The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

  Joshua Leonard

  Character, Practice, Knowing

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• I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Grateful, Rights, Voice

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, People, Faults

  "‘Rango’ Director Gore Verbinski Reveals The Top Ten Inspirations Of His Oscar-Contending Animated Feature Film" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

  Mo Yan

  Thinking, Profound, Understanding

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

  Steven Yeun

  Honesty, Real, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Loss

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• To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you - attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Strong, Power, Opportunity

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Numbers, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

  A. B. Simpson

  Character, Men, Calling

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• It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.

  James Morcan

  Kings, War, Names

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• Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Commitment, Liberty, Doe

  "Existentialism Is a Humanism". Lecture, 1946.

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• I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

  James Dobson

  Vote, Mccain

  "Dobson: 'I Would Not Vote for John McCain Under Any Circumstances'" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. January 15, 2007.

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• I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

  Peyton Manning

  Sports, Reality, Nfl

  Farewell Press Conference -- Indianapolis Colts, delivered 7 March 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana

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• These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.

  Wilford W. Andersen

  Strong, Jesus, Heart

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• When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

  Jeff Olson

  Responsibility, Fate, Hands

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• We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

  Erich Hoeber

  Character, Ideas, People

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• Stick to your values in all circumstances.

  Joel Manby

  Sticks, Values

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• I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.

  Chan Ho Park

  Team, Play, Decision

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