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“The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.”

Matter Felt Interest Simple Deals Circumstances Understood Trials Duration Public Interest

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.”

People Facts Would Be Father Felt Parent Difficult Circumstances Mets Inspired Anxious Being A Father Good Parent Difficult Circumstances

Author:Andrew Solomon

“British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.”

Felt Economic Circumstances Activity British Disappointed Pace Boldness

Author:David Frost

“I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Wanted Felt My Own Circumstances

Author:Kristen Stewart

“It is captivating, isn't it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film. I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn't about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial. I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships. Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.”

People Thinking Feels Reason Happens Film Felt Decision Circumstances Scene Drug Beats Gun England Really Great Things Change Prominent Electronic Music Captivating Nightlife

Author:Agyness Deyn

“The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.”

Humans Humanity Individual Felt Decision Powerful Technology Circumstances Makers Powerless Bizarre Autonomous Decision Makers

Author:Dale Jamieson

“I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.”

Wells Seems Today Courses Felt Modern Circumstances Ideals University Liberalism Conception Founders Adapted Classical Liberalism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.”

Matter Dream Bigs Felt Circumstances Capable No Matter What Iowa

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.”

Source: The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon

“She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.”

Mind Felt Heard Lovers Circumstances Married Safety Fortune Drawing Married Life

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.”

People Said Stories Felt Possibility Hair Circumstances Kissing Crosses Taxi Malls Retelling Implying

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Should Believe Long Done Felt Know How Events Circumstances Should Have Meetings Indifference Long Ago Indifferent Unwilling

Book:Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.”

Source: The Making of America