Top 1200 Unfortunate Circumstances Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.

It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

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

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

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

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Because the Holy Spirit is God, we feel Him as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. When He does that, He uses us. He melts us in relationships. He molds us in the pursuit and the direction of His will. He fills us with power and the perseverance to keep at it. He uses as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. Ask the Spirit of God to use you, just as you are, with the gifts and abilities that He's given you. Secure in the confidence that God is in control of your life, you will be free to serve Him with joy and effectiveness.

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

I want to be the best I can be no matter what the circumstances. That’s how I was raised.

Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the '70s, we had records. In the '80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it's sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you've got to roll with the times and the technology.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Nobody likes a bad sport, no matter what the circumstances are.

Leaders always step up, regardless of the circumstances.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

I've always believed I could create the circumstances to succeed.

True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

As a person I don't judge others because I have no idea what circumstances they are in.

When faced with exceptional circumstances, people react differently.

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is quicker to turn on the psyche's censoring devices and distortion systems, than trying to write truthfully.

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.