Circumstances Quotes - Page 31

• Stick to your values in all circumstances.

  Joel Manby

  Sticks, Values

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• One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Country, Perspective, Trying

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• We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cutting, Clothes, Coats

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• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, Successful

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• No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Wisdom

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.101, WaterBrook

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• The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

  Linda Dillow

  Happiness, Attitude, Contentment

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• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Food, Mean, Science

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• No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Parent, Matter

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in a new work is always in dialogue with the playwright) an unlimited amount of questions.

  Gideon Glick

  Directors, Lucky, New Work

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Adversity, Ease, Firsts

  'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift' (1731) l. 7

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• Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Education, Father, Men

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• As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

  Ole Hallesby

  Morning, Prayer, Noon

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• 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 in and takes the matter off his hands.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Hands, May

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Art, Failing

  Ralph Ellison (2003). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison”, Random House LLC

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• I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Believe, Character

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 461 (22 March 1776)

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• Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.

  George Washington

  Heart, Mean, May

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.504

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• To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Minutes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East”, p.124

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• To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Natural, Fronts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Independent, Conversation, Sentences

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• Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

  Jeremy Collier

  Lying, Two, Envy

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• Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

  Walter Bagehot

  Society, Age, Human Nature

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.185

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• There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Overcoming, Dignity, Individual

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• Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Book, Faces, Deceiving

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