Best Circumstances Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.”

Whole Certain Left Particular Periods Circumstances Aging Decline Organs Organisms Theoretical Cripples

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.”

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Author:Kevin Powers

“The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.”

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Author:Meister Eckhart

“I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.”

People Years Wells Whole Air Circumstances Odd Generous Fairness Thrilling Whole Year Terriers

Author:Donal Logue

“The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.”

People Thinking Bigs Trouble Circumstances Vulnerable Swings Pendulums

Author:John Podesta

“You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.”

May Seems Able Circumstances

Author:Joy Page

“Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.”

Particular Circumstances Normal Libertarian Arguing Obligation Consent

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.”

Trying Deals Humility Circumstances Good Things Sincere

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.”

Thinking Trying Mean Has Beens Reality Circumstances Painful Spending Ministers Things To Do Right Thing Prime Prime Minister Private Sector Borrowing Chunks Bail

Author:John Redwood

“For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.”

Country Enemy Economic Circumstances Critical Debt Our Country Unemployment Deficit Stagnation

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.”

Circumstances Behave Gentleman Unreal

Book:The Decline of the Gentleman

Source: The Decline of the Gentleman

“I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.”

Should Reason Circumstances Forgiving Reason Why Forgiven

Book:Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...

Source: Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...

“We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.”

Country Matter School Growing Up Knowing Growing Circumstances No Matter What Finished Get Up Mainstream

Author:Donna Shalala

“I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.”

Whole Fighting Break Circumstances Whole Life Makeup Break Out

Author:Hilary Swank

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.”

Ability Buddhism Balance Circumstances Boring Midst Chaotic Transient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.”

Hard Problem Beautiful Forget Results Responsibility Hard Work Buddhism Balance Circumstances Midst Taking Responsibility Something Beautiful Responsibility For Your Life Doing Things For Others

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.”

Trying Mind States Happiness Buddhism Circumstances Slave State Of Mind Make You Happy Stop Trying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.”

Happiness Fall Buddhism Circumstances Falling In Love Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Character Practice Knowing Circumstances Research Connections Manifest

Author:Joshua Leonard

“If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.”

Ifs Made Easy Acting Circumstances Sand Grain Pearls Grains Of Sand

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.”

Sometimes Voice Rights Grew Circumstances Grew Up Grateful Voiceless Early Life

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.”

Feels I Can Bits Lord Circumstances Sinner Naive Summary Astute

Author:Pope Francis

“I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.”

People Ifs Thinking Imagine Circumstances Faults Screwed Up

Author:Gore Verbinski

“Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.”

Numbers Theory Circumstances Capable Organisms Variation Vary Generalization

Author:George C. Williams

“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.”

People Persons Sometimes Humanity Position Circumstances Extremes Short Time

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.”

People Thinking World May Remember Circumstances Free Will Autonomy

Author:Thomas Frank

“Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.”

Thinking Difficult Understanding Circumstances Profound Difficult Circumstances

Author:Mo Yan

“I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.”

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Author:Steven Yeun

“I believe that as people will look at me, they'll see a person who has dealt with a number of very difficult and challenging circumstances and that I have been able to successfully navigate through those and create greater strength and greater opportunity. I believe that people recognize that I'm someone who has confidence in America's cause.”

People Believe Looks Persons Has Beens Able America Opportunity I Believe Causes Difficult Challenges Numbers Greater Circumstances Look At Me Have Confidence Navigate

Author:Mitt Romney

“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”

People Way Inspirational Turns Events Planets Buddhism Circumstances Quiet Majority Painful Live Life Harsh Desperation Our Planet Quiet Desperation Painful Life

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Causes Loss Buddhism Circumstances Slave Bounds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you - attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.”

People Want Needs Giving Helping Opportunity Strong Power Creative Clear Conditions Circumstances Resources What You Want Magnet Creative Power

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.”

Feels Moments Might Action My Own Habit Circumstances Responsible Response Reactions Thoughtful Annoying Pauses Pausing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.”

People Thinking Can Do Cases Novel Happened Circumstances Memoir Reverse Biographies

Book:Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time

Source: Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time

“My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.”

“In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.”

Way Heart May Use Seeing Friends Circumstances My Friends Glasses My Way Friends Forever Telescopes Microscopes New Relationship Tender Hearts

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.”

Faces Joy Spirit Choices Events Circumstances Determine Happy Stature Happy Girl

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.”

Knows Life Is Spirit Choices Conditions Circumstances Luck Generosity

Author:Mike Leigh

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.”

Thinking Real Whole Character Hurt Known New York Couple Circumstances Shoes Whole Life Real Life Barefoot

Author:Allison Williams

“There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.”

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Author:Edward Zwick

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

Men Character Spirit Christ Circumstances Calling Behalf

Author:A. B. Simpson

“The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.”

People Asks Circumstances My Family Photograph

Author:John Hodgman

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