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“By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.”

Knows Dream Joy Circumstances Guarantees Get Away Chasing Something Better

Author:Jon Stewart

“The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think I want it opened?.. To see why they wanted it shut, of course. This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.”

Thinking Knows Want Needs Humans Stills Wanted Courses Bits Doors Sea Circumstances Civilization Smoking Human Civilization Ridcully

Author:Terry Pratchett

“All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.”

Knows Men Needs Looks Know How Modern Circumstances Leisure Looking Good Modern Man Leisure Time

Book:Meaning Success

Source: Meaning Success

“Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.”

People Knows Children Doe Able Values Attention Security Identity Circumstances Crisis Financial Broke Broke Up Financial Security

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.”

Knows Way Mind Persons Doe Ends Done Given Objects Circumstances Beats Difficulty Sticks Excuse Accomplish

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

Knows Enough Past Events Circumstances Complexes Repeats Analogies Repeating History History Repeats Itself Past Events

Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.”

Knows Men May Use Opportunity Wise Circumstances Fortune Crowds Fortunate Vigorous Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Frederick Douglass

“When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.”

Knows Mean Practice Circumstances

Book:How to Study Your Bible

Source: How to Study Your Bible

“The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.”

“Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.”

People Thinking Knows Different Sometimes Reason Turns Opportunity Challenges Situation Worst Circumstances Optimism Good Things Unusual Worst Things Outlook

Author:S. Truett Cathy

“If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.”

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Author:Venus Williams

“We have our core values as a family, and we've kept them, that's our number one priority is making sure our kids know that so they also will have the same values, no matter what circumstances come your way.”

Knows Way Matter Kids Values Numbers Circumstances No Matter What Priorities Core Core Values

Author:Missy Robertson

“One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.”

Knows Opportunity Term Circumstances Hundred Appreciate Window Solve Penetrate Zips Window Of Opportunity Conundrums

Author:Terence McKenna

“You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny.”

Knows Matter Facts Imagination Destiny Cases Circumstances Our Destiny Your Destiny Persuasive

Book:Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting

Source: Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting

“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.”

Knows Want Trying Different Sometimes Facts Helping Jobs My Own Vision Produce Circumstances Different Things Best Job

Author:John Cusack

“At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Looks Past Our Lives Circumstances Fruit Our Future Architect Our Past Your Future Your Past Crossroads Reinvention

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.”

Knows Persons Together Process Wife Circumstances Collaborating

Author:Etgar Keret

“When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.”

Knows Should Strong One Thing Circumstances Overcoming Luck Good Times Very Strong Bad Times Bad Luck Strong Faith

Author:Teddy Pendergrass

“One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did”

Knows Circumstances Painful Advances In Science

Book:What is the Soul?

Source: What is the Soul?

“When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but I definitely do believe that there have been moments, musically, when I have channeled something, you know?”

People Knows Writing Believe Has Beens Hard Moments Asks Circumstances Formulas Nails

Author:Kimbra

“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.”

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Author:Molly Antopol

“Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.”

Ifs Knows President Circumstances Republican Percent Campaigns Presidential Approval Rating Mccain Outgoing Presidential Campaign Approval Rating

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I would have to make an evaluation based on the circumstances at the time I took office as to how much help they continue to need. Because it's not just the Taliban. We now are seeing outposts of, you know, fighters claiming to be affiliated with ISIS.”

Knows Needs Helping Seeing Circumstances Office Fighter Isis Taliban Evaluation

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel."”

Thinking Knows Done Circumstances Screws Kill Me

Author:Aldis Hodge

“There would be some times where people wouldn't know how to act around me. Does he drink? Can I cuss? What can I do? And then there was other circumstances where it was, I just don't respect what you're trying to do.”

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Author:LeCrae

“I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head. Brandy's [ Burre] circumstance was such that I didn't really know what was going to happen. That was obviously a surprise, but I knew she was in her mid-to-late thirties and she was starting to really think about her life in a way that really appealed to me, appealed to the women that I know in my life.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Happens Wanted Film Circumstances Late Surprise Starting Brewing Brandy

Author:Robert Greene

“Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.”

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Author:Candace Cameron

“Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.”

“I have found progress, personal growth, and new and exciting opportunities in my failure. I've grown more comfortable with the fact that in certain circumstances, I'm the person in the room who knows the least about what's going on.”

Knows Persons Facts Certain Found Opportunity Growth Rooms Progress Circumstances Comfortable Exciting Personal Growth

Author:John C. Maxwell

“We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

Knows Enough Past Events Circumstances Complexes Analogies Past Events

Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance.”

Thinking Knows Understanding Trump Circumstances Messages Incapable

Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza

“It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The character you're playing, even though he's a rooster and is really stupid, you approach it in the same way you would approach Hamlet, which is exactly how I approached it. But they give you the circumstances. "You're on the boat. You didn't expect to be here. You just climbed in a boat to maybe sleep. You don't even know why you climbed in the boat. You're really that dumb.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Character Action Sleep Stupid Circumstances Approach Boat Dumb Action Movie Really Stupid Roosters

Author:Alan Tudyk

“I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.”

Knows World Way Country States Humanity Easy Born Views Moral Worry Know How Teacher Generations Circumstances Civilization Normal Standards Affair Jew Shed Frail Younger Generation Veneer

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.”

Knows Book Different Country Jobs Father Fit Circumstances Clothes Shoes Bob Dylan

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.”

“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.”

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Author:Gar Alperovitz

“You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.”

Knows Trying Firsts Done Leader Circumstances Accomplish Get It Done

Author:Colin Powell

“With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Character Might Actors Situation Circumstances

Author:Denis Leary

“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.”

Thinking Knows Men Persons Ideas Given Childhood Circumstances Easier Illusion Raised Solitary Casual Loner

Author:Steve Martin

“Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.”

People Knows Feels Moments Path Circumstances Intention Bad People

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.”

Thinking Knows Long Hard Too Much Hard Work Circumstances Ethics Sense Of Humor Good Work Work Ethic Humbling Good Work Ethic

Author:Rachael Ray

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

People Knows Love Change Circumstances Lost Love

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.”

People Knows Way Certain Views Love You Circumstances Compliment Being Thankful Hype

Author:Mary J. Blige

“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

Ifs Knows Feels Long Bits Cry Changed Circumstances Feel Better Session Weeping Make You Cry Good Long

Author:Daniel Handler

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.”

Knows Men Way Firsts May Different Ends Moments Circumstances Ego Machines Thirds Cease Permanent Treatment Peculiar Unchangeable

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.”

People Knows Way Matter Helping Feelings Happens Emotion Risk Awareness Circumstances Connections Universal No Matter What Who We Are Not Alone Feelings And Emotions

Author:Josh Groban

“Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.”

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Author:Arthur Golden

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