Top 95 Circumstance Quotes

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you’re going do unless you’re faced with it.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

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

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

It’s the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.

I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump. There’s no way I would vote for him under any circumstance. However, I think that the protesters may as well send him some money, because I think they’re going to push people into his camp.

When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.

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

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn’t, circumstance makes up for.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that’s your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don’t know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I’ve definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.

One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one’s tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

It’s a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.

People are apprehensive about finding ‘The Leftovers’ funny because it’s such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that… just like in real life.

When Dahj and Picard first meet, it’s this really special moment of two lost souls colliding in a way in this crazy circumstance that is born out of tragedy.

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive – in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

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

As an actor, you can’t play a flashback; you can’t play someone’s memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person’s point of view.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

It’s great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don’t have children. It’s that society actually needs us. Children need us.

What gives you strength at any circumstance is your understanding of yourself.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

I live on a ranch that’s larger than Manhattan. That’s a weird circumstance.

Trade deficits are OK under certain circumstance. 1. An emerging nation imports capital goods necessary to enhance its productivity. 2. A developed nation, with a current account surplus, uses some of its investment income to finance the purchases of additional consumer goods from abroad.

Basically, there’s not a single circumstance, I pray, that can derail me from what Christ is to me and who I am because of Christ.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

I think it’s possible to have a vision for your life that goes beyond any circumstance of anything that you’ve ever seen, and I encourage people to do that. But I don’t think that any of us can do that in a vacuum.

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

Because the Savior is a resurrected and glorified being, He is not physically with every one of His servants at every moment. But He is perfectly aware of them and their circumstance and able to intervene with His power.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I can tell you beyond any doubt, that my lady is able to control herself and stick to her values regardless of circumstance. Just as surely, she can say the same about me (Ben & Jerry’s benders notwithstanding).

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

One must put things in perspective – I’ve been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

I’m always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don’t see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

Yes, there’s a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren’t vaccinated. But it’s much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don’t see a big picture for our lives. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.

At my aunt’s funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn’t be bound by the belief that I’m supposed to stay in anything – whether it’s a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance – if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it’s always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it’s always easier to be nicer afterwards.

All I am saying is I will be a senator – should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I’m into those things.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There’s a purpose for why you’re in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment… People in a crucible of an extraordinary circumstance. And then, how that experience changes their life.

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they’re held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

I just want kids to know that, no matter what your circumstance is and no matter where you’re from, you can always make a way. There’s always a way out of or a way in to do something – that thing that you want to do.