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“You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!”

Thinking Knows Giving Sometimes Today Cutting Flower Circumstances Library Grades Gowns Handshake

Author:Barack Obama

“Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Fate Happened One Thing Circumstances Harder Died Blame Luck Faults Gods Will Bad Luck Belive Wrong Time Chalk

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9)".”

“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.”

Knows Persons Simple Identity Circumstances Comfort Understood Embrace Intimacy Desperate Abandon Allowing Folds Fiber Replicate

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?”

Ifs Knows Writing Trying Done Language Four Worst Judging Circumstances Dresses Finished Lists Partners Going Away Worst Things Arseholes

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“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)

“It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.”

Knows Heart Lord Our Lives Judging Circumstances Complexity Reserved

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.”

Knows Circumstances Complexes Overwhelming

Book:Breathless

Source: Breathless

“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.”

Ifs Knows Love Feels Long Has Beens Made Bits Events Cry Changed Circumstances Lucky Feel Better Session Weeping Lucky You Good Long Getting Over It

Author:Daniel Handler

“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke”

Knows Soul Light Desire Dark Path Fire Rocks Wall Circumstances Pure Despair Summer Shadow Madness Edges My Soul Heat Purity Waking Odds Caves Nobility Sweating Theodore

Author:Theodore Roethke

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

Knows Motivational Circumstances Desperate Encouraging Cheerful

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.”

Knows Has Beens Art Said Country Stories Names Dark Identity Circumstances Mere Myth Mysterious Works Of Art Thieves Stolen Phantoms True Identity

Author:Yukiru Sugisaki

“The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.”

Thinking Knows Persons Matter Character Personality Circumstances Peculiar Observers Strands

Author:Elliot Perlman