Top 1200 Unfortunate Circumstances Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Injuries are part of the game for everybody. You have to manage those circumstances as best you can.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

I don't pull out of fights. I fight through injuries. I don't care what the circumstances are.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality.

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

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

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

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

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Sometimes you are the only living, walking, breathing version of the Bible that people will ever see. What long-lasting taste are you going to leave in their mouths? A lot of people have left a bad taste. And it's so unfortunate, because God is the best!

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

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

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt 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.