Circumstances Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

  John Foster Dulles

  Commitment, Special, Principles

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• True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

  John C. Calhoun

  Wise, Consistency, Way

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

  Susan Sarandon

  Ordinary, Cost, Abyss

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.

  Bill Gothard

  Forever, Bottles, Sitting

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• Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

  Thomas Leonard

  Creating, Creating Your Life

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• You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

  David Stern

  Moving, Eye, Opportunity

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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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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• Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

  Eric Maisel

  Alternatives, Turns, Built

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Jobs, Ordinary

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• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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• In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.

  John Hancock

  Christian, Taken, Mean

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• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Justice, Diversity

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

  William Osler

  Planning, Fit, Schemes

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

  Jewel

  Kids, Home, Thinking

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• Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, May, He Man

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.108, Booklassic

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• The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Emotional, Age, Awakening

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• Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Time, Real, War

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• No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

  Brigham Young

  Inspiring, Education, Adversity

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