Circumstances Quotes - Page 4

• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Years, Evil, Heaven

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One”, p.16, e-artnow

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• People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

  Anthony Powell

  Thinking, People, Biographies

  Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• I am I plus my circumstances.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Plus

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• Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

  Joel Osteen

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Choices

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• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  Edmund Burke

  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.230

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• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

  Iris Chang

  People, Evil, Would Be

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• In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

  Amy Tan

  America, Giving, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin

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• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Passion, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Tests, Nations

  "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.

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• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Courage, Love Yourself

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

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

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• I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Able, Courses

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Influence, Relation, Determine

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• Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

  Darryl Anka

  States, Determine

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• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Time, Philosophical

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• Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

  Mira Sorvino

  Character, People, Giving

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• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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• A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

  Alice Duer Miller

  Mother, Children, Wall

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Artist, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  Ben Chandler

  Being Happy, Hands, Political

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• I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

  Camille Claudel

  Thank You, Two, President

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