“I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.” ThinkingWorldHumansDifferentProblemGenerationsHuman NatureChangedCircumstancesTeenageImpatience Author:Loretta Young
“Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.” MenMadeWrittenAtheismChangedCircumstancesCivilizationFameCurrentsPositive AtheismBoundariesHeroines Author:H. G. Wells
“In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.” WarStatesWould BePeaceUnitedUnited StatesChangedCircumstancesEasierIntervention Author:Mario Lopez
“Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.” HumansMayPersonsLawGrowsCommonOpinionPrinciplesChangedCircumstancesAdvantageApplicationProgressionCommon Law Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.” PeopleMayWarAgeGriefChangedCircumstancesAnd LoveLongingRagePlanesChariots Author:Madeline Miller
“But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.” NeedsBelieveStillsMatterPoliticalCertainMistakeSituationOpinionOne ThingSubjectsChangedCircumstancesStandardsAbsolutesDebateDependentCommandmentsPublic OpinionPollsFidelityPolitical CorrectnessChastityEver AfterCorrectnessRespectabilityAbsolutismOpinion PollsBefore Marriage Author:M. Russell Ballard
“The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.” WorldHumansChangedSourceCircumstancesMoralityInventionEvolveAssumptionHuman Inventions Book:How Now Shall We Live? Source: How Now Shall We Live?
“I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.” ThinkingDifferentRealWholeSocialBornSituationChangedEmotionalCircumstancesEastGet Real Author:Robert Plant
“There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.” MadeNightChoicesRealizingSimpleChangedCircumstancesOne Night Author:Alicia Keys
“What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.” IfsHas BeensSaidAbleSocialCausesClearChangedCircumstancesGayPerceptionWoodsFortunateHappy LifeInherentNormBeing Gay Author:Andrew Solomon
“It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed, you begin to change. The key that unlocks the gates of heaven is a thankful heart. Entrance into the courts of God comes as you simply begin to praise the Lord.” HeartDoeMatterHeavenSituationLordChangedKeysCircumstancesPraiseCourtInstantGatesThank GodEntrancesThankful HeartGates Of HeavenPraise The Lord Author:Francis Frangipane
“It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.” ChangedCircumstancesBehaviorParadox Author:Lewis Schiff
“Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing that this bi polar situation was for namesake. Now the entire world, in changed circumstances, especially in 21st century, it is more interdependent and inter connected, earlier, the foreign policy was possible between governments, but today it is not possible just between governments. Government relations are important but increasing people to people contact is equally important. There's been a shift in paradigm.” PeopleWorldLittlesTwoImportantGovernmentWould BeTodayRealizingSituationCenturyPolicyChangedCircumstancesLateIndiaRelationConnectedContactForeign Policy21st CenturyParadigmSuper PowerNamesake Author:Narendra Modi
“In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook people alive, and directly and indirectly things changed. But, as I see it, the change is never through the music alone. It's also the circumstances around the music that will cause/create the effect. And sometimes it's just strictly accidental that a piece of music becomes a form of protest.” PeopleSometimesChangedCircumstancesMusic IsThreatProtestThings ChangeDylan1960s Author:G.W. Sok
“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.” SometimesMomentsEarthChangeChanceOur LivesChangedCircumstancesBreathsThings ChangeRemarksEarth Life Book:The Power of One Source: The Power of One
“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” IfsKnowsFeelsLongBitsCryChangedCircumstancesFeel BetterSessionWeepingMake You CryGood Long Author:Daniel Handler
“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.” MenNeedsForgetChangedProductsCircumstancesDoctrineUpbringingEducator Author:Karl Marx
“True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.” PeopleMindPersonsSeemsAttitudeChangedPerspectiveCircumstancesIntercession Book:My Utmost for His Highest Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” IfsKnowsLoveFeelsLongHas BeensMadeBitsEventsCryChangedCircumstancesLuckyFeel BetterSessionWeepingLucky YouGood LongGetting Over It Author:Daniel Handler