“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.” ThinkingRealWholeCharacterHurtKnownNew YorkCoupleCircumstancesShoesWhole LifeReal LifeBarefoot Author:Allison Williams
“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.” KnowsWorldHas BeensParentKnownKnow HowCircumstancesIllusionErrorsIllExperimentsPerceiveGermsSpoilt Author:Louis Pasteur
“Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.” IfsWantKnownIdentityCircumstancesResponseCooperatingResponsiveness Author:Graham Cooke
“Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known” MindStatesEmotionKnownEmotionalCircumstancesFasterSubstanceStrongestTake MeState Of Mind Author:Ben Harper
“Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.” BeliefFictionKnownOpinionFantasyImpossibleReaderCircumstancesJudgmentEssenceRegardScience FictionSubjective Book:Pandemonium Source: Pandemonium
“I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.” Would BeFacesDesireKnownCircumstancesFilledCellsEnjoyedCrowded Book:The Stranger Source: The Stranger
“While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.” SelfKnownPossibilityCircumstancesAspectRaisesSuicideWoundsConsistentLocationCompatibleHomicideInfliction Author:Elliott Smith
“We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.” SoulHappensAgePurposeOrderAbilityPowerfulKnownBirthCircumstancesHealthyIntellectThings HappenChosen Author:Christiane Northrup