Quotes on Circumstances

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

Author: Jack Abramoff

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Author: James Allen

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

Author: James Allen

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Author: Charles Babbage

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Author: Carl Barks

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Author: Dave Barry

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

Author: Hans Blix

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

Author: Breyten Breytenbach

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

Author: Pat Brown

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Author: Edmund Burke

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Author: Richard Carlson

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

Author: Thomas Clarkson

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

Author: William Clifford

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Author: Charles Colton

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

Author: Peter Davies

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

Author: Hugh Downs

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Author: Bram Fischer

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Author: Fernando Flores

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

Author: Brendan Fraser

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

Author: Milton Friedman

I am I plus my circumstances.

Author: Jose Gasset

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Author: Paul Getty

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Author: Ruth Gordon

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Author: Pam Grier

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

Author: Jessica Hahn

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Author: Margaret Halsey

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Author: Townsend Harris

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Author: Napoleon Hill

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

Author: Stu Jackson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

Author: Lonnie Johnson

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.

Author: Anson Jones

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

Author: Christian Lange

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.

Author: T. Lawrence

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Author: Blaine Lee

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Author: Bruce Lee

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

Author: Ted Lindsay

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Author: Samuel Lover

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

Author: Murray Mann

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Author: Mother Maribel

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Author: Barbara Mikulski

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Author: Mary Montagu

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Author: Samuel Morison

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

Author: John Nash, Jr.

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

Author: Hassan Nasrallah

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

Author: James Newman

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Author: Earl Nightingale

In the same circumstances, I know that I would do the same thing again.

Author: Melita Norwood

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Author: Robert Owen

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Author: Tom Palmer

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Author: Talcott Parsons

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

Author: J. Priestley

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Author: Nido Qubein

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

Author: Simon Raven

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

Author: Chuck Robb

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

Author: Zhu Rongji

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

Author: Elihu Root

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Author: C. Scott

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

Author: David Selznick

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Author: Johann Seume

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Author: Peter Singer

Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team.

Author: John Starks

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

Author: Hideki Tojo

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

Author: Lee Trevino

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Author: David Trimble

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

Author: Abraham Tucker

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Author: Mark Twain

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Author: Virgil

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

Author: Horace Walpole

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Author: Daniel Webster

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Author: Simone Weil

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Author: William Wilberforce

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Author: George Williams

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

Author: Norman Wisdom

I was born in very sorry circumstances.

Author: Norman Wisdom

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

Author: Dwight Yoakam

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?

Author: Pieter Zeeman