Top 1200 Unfortunate Circumstances Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out.

I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they're not gonna, and there's nothing anyone can do. There's nothing anyone can say or do. And the unfortunate part is sometimes people die because of that.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

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

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

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

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.

The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

We're not defined by our circumstances, and we can always find a way to rise above it.

I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

We got spoiled with 'Friday Night Lights.' Not every show is like that, and on other shows, if you try to bring that same truth or that same approach, the system of television doesn't always allow for that level of collaboration, which is unfortunate because the work would be richer.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

I think there's often a negative associated with being passionate or geeky about entertainment, but for me, entertainment has always been a greater, psychological escape, so I think it's unfortunate when others don't appreciate the depth of passion entertainment offers.

Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

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

Each season was different and presented its own set of circumstances and challenges.

The circumstances In which I grew up In Poland were not auspicious for humor.

In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

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

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

You should never put your hands on a woman, under any circumstances.

Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.