Top 818 Circumstance Quotes & Sayings

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

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.

Faith lives inside of us in every circumstance.

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

I'm not fussy at all; I've been raised to adjust myself in any circumstance.

Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life.

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

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

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

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

There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.